| 词组 | indulge |
| 释义 | indulge When indulge is used intransitively and with a preposition, the preposition is usually in: • A wedding is nothing but an excuse for indulging in indecency under respectable guise —Vita SackvilleWest, The Edwardians, 1930 • People who know the facts can never be quite so free to indulge in fantasy as those who don't —Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1936 • ... the ordinary man's occasional fear of indulging involuntarily in overstrong language —Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences, 1950 When indulge is used transitively and with a preposition, the preposition is usually in or with; in occurs a little more frequently: • I thank the House for having indulged me in this manner —Sir Winston Churchill, The Unrelenting Struggle, 1942 • ... indulged themselves in factitious pity —William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951 • ... and it was only on occasion of a present like this, that Silas indulged himself with roast-meat — George Eliot, Silas Marner, 1861 • ... continues to indulge his whimsy with brocade and doeskin neckties —Current Biography, March 1965 Transitive indulge is occasionally used with by; when it is, the object of by is generally a gerund: • ... a post-war Italy that brims with talent yet indulges its recent shame by condescending toward its greatest novelist —New Republic, 4 Aug. 1952 |
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