| 词组 | improve |
| 释义 | improve When improve is used with a preposition, it is usually on or upon: • ... remembered all the backwoods stories his customers told him—and doubtlessly improved on them a little —George Sessions Perry, Saturday Evening Post, 3 July 1954 • The book is hard to improve on —Daniel Melcher, Children's House, Holiday issue, 1969 • It is a common fallacy that a writer ... can achieve this poignant quality by improving upon his subect-matter —Willa Cather, Not Under Forty, 1936 • ... a mass of people as a whole seems to improve upon the better nature of the parts —Edward Hoag-land, Harper's, October 1970 Very occasionally, improve is used with over: • ... although he improves over Johnson by entering more respellings —Language, January-March 1946 |
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