| 词组 | instruct |
| 释义 | instruct When instruct is used with a preposition, the one that occurs most frequently is to followed by an infinitive: • ... they told them so because they had been instructed to tell them so —H. R. Trevor-Roper, New Statesman & Nation, 5 Dec. 1953 • ... an urgent call from the White House instructing him to draw up a legal brief —Current Biography, July 1965 Almost as frequently instruct is used with in: • ... present need should instruct America in drawing the plans of a new system of government —Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought, 1930 • ... a teacher was secured in Philadelphia to instruct in English grammar —American Guide Series: Delaware, 1938 Occasionally, instruct is used with as to or for: • ... instruct them as to which candidate to vote for —Dayton D. McKean, Party and Pressure Politics, 1949 • Of the 382 delegates thus chosen, 278 were instructed for Roosevelt, 68 for Taft —David Saville Muzzey, Our Country's History, new ed., 1961 |
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