| 词组 | trod |
| 释义 | trod Trod usually occurs as the past tense and past participle of tread: • ... where he trod too often on the forbidden grass of his conservative committee —Times Literary Supp., 2 May 1968 • ... steps which, according to tradition, were trod upon by Christ —Irving R. Levine, Atlantic, September 1970 But trod also has a long history of use as a verb in its own right. The OED says the verb trod is obsolete except in dialectal use and defines it both as a transitive verb meaning "track" and as an intransitive verb meaning "to pursue a path." The OED's transitive sense, first attested in 1225, seems no longer to be used except in Scottish dialect. The intransitive sense, which might also be defined simply as "tread," is a much later development, not recorded until 1909. It occurs chiefly in dialectal American speech, but it also occasionally finds its way onto the printed page: • ... they were almost trodding on your correspondent's toes —Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, 15 Nov. 1961 • ... visitors have been coming in increasing numbers to trod down Main Street —Elizabeth Van Steen-wyk, Ford Times, November 1967 A related transitive trod also sometimes appears in print. Like the intransitive trod, it is used both literally and figuratively: • The eccentric is forced, therefore, to trod a lonely way —Martin Gardner, In the Name of Science, 1952 • ... we saw one horse with wagon ... trodding the cobbled yard —John A. Murray, Grace Log, Winter 1967-1968 • ... the crooked road so many of the city's youth seemed destined to trod —Caleb Pirtle III, Southern Living, December 1971 It is not certain whether the use of trod in place of tread grew out of the older "track" sense of trod or developed instead from the past and past participle trod. Critics such as Harper 1985 and Copperud 1980 take the latter view and regard it simply as a mistake. It is, in either case, very much a minority usage. |
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