| 词组 | influence |
| 释义 | influence 1. When the noun influence is used with a preposition, of predominates and usually introduces the influence itself: • ... we find primitive men thinking that almost everything is significant and can exert influence of some sort —William James, Pragmatism, 1907 • The influence of Seneca is much more apparent in the Elizabethan drama —T. S. Eliot, "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," in Selected Essays, 1932 • All confessions are carefully scrutinized for the influence of fear and coercion —William O. Douglas, in Omnibook, October 1953 In the opposite relation, introducing the one influenced, it is often used with on or in; use of on occurs a little more frequently: • We are not concerned with details, but with ultimate influences on thought —Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1925 • I had read The Sound and the Fury a month or two earlier and it had a long influence on me —Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, 1959 • ... the need to conform has a powerful influence on the thinking and behavior of Americans —Ralph White, Psychology Today, November 1971 • ... Greek morals, in their finest essence, have been a vivifying influence in our modern world —Have-lock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 • ... his enormous influence in the party organization —New Republic, 8 Mar. 1954 • ... her dresses have become an important influence in the fashion industry —Current Biography, May 1953 In the same relation but less often, influence is used with over or upon: • As provost of the Swedish clergymen he exercised a quickening influence over all the Swedish congregations —Dictionary of American Biography, 1928 • For this reason, he gained unbounded influence over Alexis's mother, the Tsarina —Times Literary Supp., 1 Feb. 1968 • ... its paralysing influence upon the production and enjoyment of wealth —J. A. Hobson, Poverty in Plenty, 1931 • ... heredity ... exercised a greater influence upon him than did living people —Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences, 1950 Influence has occasionally also been used with among, for, from, or with: • It thus became a major goal of American foreign policy to weaken Communist influences among unions —Collier's Year Book, 1949 • She didn't approve of Mack in the least. Thought he was a bad influence for Duveaux —Olive Higgins Prouty, Now, Voyager, 1941 • ... the younger man was subjected to a deep and lasting influence from the older writer —Emile DeLaveny, Times Literary Supp., 17 Apr. 1969 • ... the Russians took steps to gain influence with the governments of Eastern Europe —C. E. Black & E. C. Helmreich, Twentieth Century Europe, 1950 2. Simon 1980 is not gentle with people who stress this word on the second syllable: • What makes influence so ghastly is not necessarily its sound (though I think it is ugly) but its demonstration of the existence of people so uneducated, so deaf to what others are saying, so unable to learn the obvious that they are bound to be a major source of verbal pollution, linguistic corruption, cultural erosion. We cite this passage to illustrate what passions a fairly minor linguistic variation can arouse. The pronunciation \\\\in-'flü-ǝns\\\\ is chiefly Southern—we have recorded it spoken by former President Jimmy Carter, journalist Tom Wicker, and various Southern senators and governors. The point to notice is that, in some communities, \\\\in-'flü-ǝns\\\\ is what others are saying. It is thus largely a mark, not of the nescient, but of those who happen to have been born and raised in the South. The same variation is found in congruence, some stressing the first syllable and some the second. In this case, however, so far as we know, the variation correlates neither with schooling nor with region. |
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