| 词组 | border |
| 释义 | border When border is used to mean "to approach the nature of a specific thing" and is followed by a preposition, on is usually the choice: • ... even talking to one's friends in these days you came to racial issues that bordered on a party line — John P. Marquand, So Little Time, 1943 • ... a passionate dedication that borders on fanaticism —Michael Novak, Center Mag., September 1969 • ... a waste of intellect bordering on the absurd — Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913 • ... she did nothing but walk up and down ... in a state bordering on stupefaction —Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878 When the literal sense of border is used in the passive, the preposition most often used is by; with is less frequent: • ... rice paddies bordered by earthen dikes —E. J. Kahn, Jr., New Yorker, 12 May 1951 • ... the river bordered with wild flags and mottled plane trees —Louis Bromfield, The Man Who Had Everything, 1935 |
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