| 词组 | swell |
| 释义 | swell This verb has two past participles in standard usage—swelled and swollen. The principal distinction that can be made between them is that swollen is the one used frequently as an attributive adjective: • ... does not have to kowtow to some swollen bureaucracy —Ted Williams, Massachusetts Wildlife, November-December 1975 • ... battle of avarice and swollen ego —Anson Mount, Playboy, August 1977 Swelled is used attributively only in the idiom swelled head, as far as our citations indicate: • ... where isolation too often breeds swelled heads in legislators and administrators —Round Table, March 1939 Otherwise, the two forms are more or less interchangeable, although, as Longman 1984 notes, swollen is more likely in describing a harmful or undesirable swelling: • ... your face feeling unwashed and swollen from the intermittent sleep you got —William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951 • The area becomes inflamed and swollen —Claude A. Villee et al., General Zoology, 3d ed., 1968 • ... his vanity had swollen to monstrous proportions —Malcolm Muggeridge, Esquire, December 1971 Swelled also occurs in such contexts: • Their feet had swelled up with infection —Raymond A. Sokolov, Fading Feast, 1981 But more often swelled tends to be used in a neutral or positive way, especially in describing an increase in numbers: • From 105 attorneys ..., the firm has now swelled to 120 —Paul Hoffman, New York, 26 Apr. 1971 • ... the ranks were swelled by more than 200,000 — Seymour M. Lipset & Everett C. Ladd, Jr., Change, May-June 1971 • ... the student body has swelled to 500 —Hank Hersch, Sports Illustrated, 19 Nov. 1986 |
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