| 词组 | antipathy |
| 释义 | antipathy Bernstein 1965 says that antipathy takes to, toward, or against; Lincoln Library 1924 says to, sometimes for or against, and between; Krapp 1927 says to but not for or against; Webster 1909 says to, against, between, sometimes for. We had better straighten this out. Construction with against seems to be archaic. We have no recent evidence for it, although it was once current: • What a strange antipathy I have taken against these creatures! —George Farquhar, The Inconstant, 1702 • ... nothing is more essential than that permanent inveterate antipathies against particular nations ... should be excluded —George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 The use of between (two persons or things), while not common, is still current: • ... there was a marked antipathy between their radicalism or liberalism and the conservative peasant ideas of the mass of Italian immigrants —Oscar Handlin, The American People in the Twentieth Century, 1954 • The antipathy between Mr. Barbieri and Mr. Lee has grown —William Borders, N. Y. Times, 15 Oct. 1967 • The antipathy between the groups is deep —Renata Adler, Pitch Dark, 1983 To has been and continues to be the most common preposition: • Whose peering eye and wrinkled front declare • A fixed antipathy to young and fair—Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, 1783 • ... perceived above a dozen large bugs. You must know I have the same kind of antipathy to these vermin —Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy, 1766 • Hogarth's antipathy to France —Agnes Repplier, In Pursuit of Laughter, 1936 • ... who shares this antipathy to the indefiniteness of aesthetic morality —Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 • ... a definite antipathy to permitting outside doctors to come into their home communities and take over their practice —JAMA, 3 Apr. 1943 • ... Grandmother's belief that the medical profession needed informed lay augmentation was the basis for her implacable antipathy to hospitals —James A. Maxwell, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 1951 • ... the growing sensibility cult with its antipathy to the generic explicitness of the novel —Anthony J. Hassall, Novel, Spring 1972 While for and toward appear somewhat less frequently than to, both are in regular use, and they are about equally common: • The antipathy Lessing felt for the French wit — Irving Babbitt, The New Laokoon, 1910 • ... both species knew instinctively of his pronounced antipathy for them —Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences, 1950 • Her one antipathy is for Schräder, whose work she has never liked —Robert F. Moss, Saturday Rev., October 1980 • Little remains of the Puritanical antipathy toward them as immoral —Thomas Munro, The Arts and Their Interrelations, 1949 • And the American antipathy toward a preventive nuclear strike —Stephen A. Garrett, Center Mag., July-August 1971 |
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