| 词组 | inculcate |
| 释义 | inculcate When inculcate is used with a preposition, and the direct object denotes what is inculcated, the preposition is usually in or into: • Hatred of America is systematically inculcated in Russians —Time, 27 Sept. 1948 • His task, rather, is to inculcate in the government and the people basic ecological attitudes —William Murdoch & Joseph Connell, Center Mag, January-February 1970 • The blatant irrationalism and blind violence inculcated into the dupes of the totalitarian despots — Times Literary Supp., 18 Jan. 1941 • By the time I was four years old "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" ... had been fairly inculcated into my bloodstream —Noel Coward, Punch, 8 July 1953 Infrequently, inculcate is also used with on or upon: • ... thorough instruction in all phases of weather ... designed to inculcate judgment on what to do in emergency —Phil Gustafson, Saturday Evening Post, 12 June 1954 • ... the figure primarily responsible for inculcating upon vast numbers of young and needy minds ... the primer-simple notion that LSD has "something" to do with religion —Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture, 1969 More controversial is the use of inculcate with with and a personal direct object. Although this practice rouses the opposition of some language commentators (Evans 1957, Phythian 1979, Bryson 1984, for example), most seem not to notice that when the use occurs, the sense of the verb is a little different from the sense implied when inculcate is used with the other prepositions mentioned above: "to cause to be impressed" rather than "to impress". Copperud 1970, 1980 is an exception in this regard, and he is also one commentator who seems not to be disturbed by passages like these: • ... the disinterested teachers who fail to inculcate them with American ideals —James J. Joliff, letter to the editor, Newsweek, 22 July 1957 • The children ... were early inculcated with their parents' moral code —Current Biography, July 1965 This construction, though standard, is much less common than the uncontroversial one discussed first. |
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