| 词组 | incongruous |
| 释义 | incongruous Incongruous may be used with the preposition to or with: • ... it would be ... incongruous to meet her at the end of a chapter —Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn, 1947 • ... an efflorescence of hope that must have seemed highly incongruous to those who knew his situation —James Atlas, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 8 July 1979 • He ate enormously, with a zest which seemed incongruous with his spare frame —Willa Cather, The Song ofthe Lark, 1915 • It is astonishingly incongruous with what we feel we know —T. S. Eliot, "Cyril Tourneur," in Selected Essays, 1932 Less frequently, incongruous occurs with about, in, or on: • There is something incongruous about Oslo —Hugh C. McDonald, The Hour of the Blue Fox, 1975 • ... settlements incongruous in material and often startling in their ugliness —S. P. B. Mais, The English Scene To-day, 2d ed., 1949 • He was smoking a cigar which looked incongruous on his thin face —Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 1948 |
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