| 词组 | incumbent |
| 释义 | incumbent 1. When the adjective incumbent is used with a preposition, it is usually used with upon or on: use of upon occurs a little more frequently. Use of on or upon usually means that the object of the preposition is followed by to with an infinitive: • After taking off his coat, he felt it incumbent upon him to make some little report of his day —Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900 • It is incumbent upon the press to act not in its own best interests, but in society's best interests —Carll Tucker, Saturday Rev., 23 June 1979 • ... Mr. Lorry felt it incumbent on him to speak a word or two of reassurance —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 • It is not the Russian people as a whole on whom it is incumbent to respond to the challenge —George F. Kennan, New Yorker, 1 May 1971 Occasionally, the preposition is simply followed by a noun: • Expression of that emotional experience has been incumbent upon modern fiction —Warren Beck in Forms of Modern Fiction, ed. William Van O'Connor, 1948 • ... the various types of obligation incumbent on the members of the profession —R. M. Maclver, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1955 Far less frequently, incumbent is used with for: • ... is it therefore incumbent for us to abandon our search ... ? —Ernest Nagel, New Republic, 28 June 1954 2. See present incumbent. |
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