| 词组 | involve |
| 释义 | involve 1. Some language critics, among them Phythian 1979, Follet 1966, and Evans 1957, deplore the use of this word as imprecise when there is no suggestion of complication or entanglement, as in sentences like "Representatives of several groups were involved in the discussions." However, the choice of involve in these cases may have been deliberate on the part of a writer who was looking for a less specific but no less meaningful word than entail, necessitate, or affect (all of which Phythian suggests as substitutes). At any rate, involve has over the centuries acquired various shades of meaning. It is standardly used in any number of senses without apparently generating misunderstandings on the part of the reading public, and also without any serious loss of use of those other putatively more precise words, which continue to be called upon when writers need them. 2. When involve is used with a preposition, it occurs with many, but the one chosen most often is in: • Involved in these imaginings she knew nothing of time —Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878 • Involved in its meaning is the idea of power conceived in a particular way —Lionel Trilling, in Forms of Modern Fiction, ed. William Van O'Connor, 1948 • ... approve the costs that were involved in building new roads —Edwin O. Reischauer, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 23 May 1954 • It seems inconceivable that such a man could be involved in questionable deals —Trevor Armbrister, Saturday Evening Post, 12 Feb. 1966 Involve is also used often with with: • ... become emotionally involved with their jobs, and take pleasure in accomplishment —Herbert Gold, Yale Rev., Autumn 1954 • The less parochial among British radical students... are rightly involved with the problem of world hunger —Times Literary Supp., 9 Apr. 1970 • When Jo is away, he finds himself simultaneously involved with Anna, a Brooklyn waitress ... and Imogen, the romantically beautiful wife —Alfred Kazin, Partisan Rev., Summer 1946 • The second floor of a three-story frame building is fully involved with fire —Dennis Smith, Report from Engine Co. 82, 1972 Infrequently, involve has been used with against, around, for, or into: • At present about 400,000 soldiers, some 95,000 of them European, are involved against Ho's forces — Frank Gorrell, New Republic, 3 Aug. 1953 • ... the true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself — Samuel C. Brownstein & Mitchel Weiner, How to Prepare for College Entrance Examinations, ed. Stanley H. Kaplan, 1954 • "He says it'd be lovely and so on. But I don't think he sees what's involved for me." —Nigel Balchin, A Way Through the Wood, 1951 • "That'll be quite enough." He involved a thousand-volt charge into his primness and succeeded in looking like the Angel of the Lord —Margery Allingham, More Work for the Undertaker, 1949 |
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