词组 | indifferent |
释义 | indifferent The preposition used with indifferent is almost always to: • ... aspects of language that the earlier grammarians were indifferent to —Geoffrey Nunberg, Atlantic, December 1983 • ... singularly indifferent to landscape —Times Literary Supp., 21 May 1971 • ... grow indifferent to and even contemptuous of such democratic impedimenta —Irving Howe, Harper's, July 1969 Rarely we find a compound preposition—as to or with respect to—instead: • For it is commonly said and commonly believed that science is completely neutral and indifferent as to the ends and values which move men to act — John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, 1939 |
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