| 词组 | subject |
| 释义 | subject 1. • ... it's our fighting men ... that make the proper subject of American fiction —James Purdy, Cabot Wright Begins, 1964 • ... the exercise of power is the great subject of history —Times Literary Supp., June 1969 • ... became a subject of violent controversy —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 Subject is sometimes also used with for: • The subject for Milton's "Paradise Lost" is, as Bradley says, the fall of man —John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934 • It was so long since the sculptress had regarded sex as anything but a subject for conversation —Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, 1956 When subject is used to mean "victim," it has also been used with to: • ... one would never have guessed that William James was the subject to a heart ailment —Sidney Lovett, Yale Rev., Summer 1954 2. • ... the party convicted [after impeachment] shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment —Constitution of the United States, 1787 • Paul was rather a delicate boy, subject to bronchitis —D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, 1913 • ... they proved that the society is no longer as subject to that "relentless tide of ups and downs" which Marx was among the first to chart —Michael Harrington, Center Mag., September 1969 3. • My partners in St. Louis have been subjected to several attempts to stop the flight —Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1953 • ... she had never subjected herself to the discipline of continuousness —John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, 1957 • He writes of them in their own right, without attempting to subject them to general concepts — Times Literary Supp., 26 Mar. 1970 • Uncle Harold was often subjected to these small humiliations —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 |
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