| 词组 | treat |
| 释义 | treat When used as an intransitive verb meaning "negotiate," treat is idiomatically followed by with: • ... to provide France with a competent representative to treat with President Eisenhower —Lansing Warren, N.Y. Times, 7 June 1953 • ... a Sioux Indian coming to treat with yet another cavalry general —Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, May 1971 In less typical constructions, this sense of treat is followed by for and on: • ... delegates were reported as leaving Berlin to treat for an armistice —Elizabeth Madox Roberts, He Sent Forth a Raven, 1935 • ... the commissioners sent to Hartford to treat on the Connecticut boundary —Dictionary of American Biography, 1936 When used to mean "to deal with a matter in writing," treat is followed by of: • Mr. Robson treats of Kipling's middle rather than late stories —Times Literary Supp., 2 Apr. 1964 • The first volume ... treated of the seminal thinkers —Theodore M. Avery, Jr., Library Jour., 1 Apr. 1966 Several critics have called the use of on or with after this sense of treat an error. There is no evidence of such usage in the Merriam-Webster files. If it occurs, it probably represents a mental blending of treat with such combinations as expound on or deal with. |
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