| 词组 | impose |
| 释义 | impose When used with a preposition, transitive impose is used most often with on; while impose is also used with upon, on occurs almost twice as often: • They [churches] impose their views on the public schools —Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929 • He had greatly disliked the outlandish style imposed on him —Arthur Mizener, The Saddest Story, 1971 • To impose the baler on those big, hay-grown fields, mastering all their produce —Edmund Wilson, New Yorker, 5 June 1971 • ... it must impose ever greater restrictions upon the activities of its subjects —Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958 • By making forms he understands the world, grasps the world, imposes himself upon the world —Robert Penn Warren, Democracy and Poetry, 1975 Much less frequently, impose occurs with as or from: • A great writer—yes; that account still imposes itself as fitting —F. R. Leavis, The Common Pursuit, 1952 • Order is something evolved from within, not something imposed from without —E. M. Forster, in Encore, November 1944 Occasionally, impose is used with against, around, between, in, into, or over: • If there were any risk that I might be simply imposing one interpretation against another —Frederick J. Hoffman, Southern Rev., April 1965 • ... the United Kingdom's Defense Ministry imposed a new 200-mile war zone around the Falklands — Wall Street Jour., 29 Apr. 1982 • He imposed the huge, native stone building between his rambling lodge and his old stable —Ford Times, February 1968 • They imposed respect if not affection in Europe — D. W. Brogan, The English People, 1943 • ... the imposing of reason and moderation into the bosoms of some fifteen gentlemen of birth —Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm, 1932 • ... the Romans imposed a uniform organisation over the whole of Lowland Britain —L. Dudley Stamp, The Face of Britain, rev. ed., 1944 |
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