| 词组 | join |
| 释义 | join 1. Join is used with any of several prepositions; those occurring most often are in, to, or with. When in is used, it is followed by a noun or by a gerund: • ... Snowy felt ashamed to have joined in the laugh —Richard Llewellyn, A Few Flowers for Shiner, 1950 • If others went ahead and engaged in name calling, at least he could refuse to join in it —William Lee Miller, The Reporter, 8 June 1954 • ... urged the United States to join in the acceptance of Communist China by the United Nations —Current Biography, January 1966 • ... he at once joined in organizing Tualatin Academy —Dictionary of American Biography, 1928 • Scientific management thus joined trade-union pressure ... in shortening the work week —Stuart Chase, N. Y. Times Mag, 30 May 1954 When join is used with to or with, at least one early commentator (Raub 1897) thought that with the choice of preposition a distinction is made as to the type of object: "Join to something greater, with something equal". Our files do not indicate that usage is so clear-cut. To and with are used about equally, and both occur in many situations: • ... the agitation of his mind, joined to the pain of his wound, kept him awake all night —Francis Park-man, in The Practical Cogitator, ed. Charles P. Curtis, Jr. & Ferris Greenslet, 1945 • All my life I have looked for ... a writer with spiritual health and goodness joined to literary genius — Francis Hackett, Saturday Rev., 16 Feb. 1946 • ... it describes its author's struggle to assert her sexuality, to join it to creativity —Leonard Kriegel, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 11 May 1980 • ... I joined with a group of persons to go in a taxi to the prison —Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong, 1977 • ... Pennsylvanians under Wayne ... joined their units with men from New Hampshire —F. Van Wyck Mason, The Winter at Valley Forge, 1953 • ... detailed research joined with a splendid narrative style —American Scholar, Spring 1953 It seems that if join is being used of persons, with is the more likely preposition to occur, as in the Porter and Van Wyck Mason examples above; however, join to may also be found: • He was then joined to Gen. Scott's command and was actively engaged at the seige —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 Occasionally, join is used with into: • ... when the thirteen colonies joined into a Federal Union —Vera Micheles Dean, The Four Cornerstones of Peace, 1946 2. There are many language commentators who disapprove using together with join; they call it redundant. Join together is primarily a spoken idiom in which the purpose of together is to add emphasis. Probably the best known example of these words is in the Bible: • What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder —Matthew 19:6 (AV), 1611 Contemporary examples can also be found: • ... loose alliances of local factions that join together every four years for purposes of contesting Presidential elections —Robert K. Carr, N. Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 13 Apr. 1952 • "... two people joined together ... by hatred—a deep, abiding, mutual hatred." —Hamilton Basso, The View From Pompey's Head, 1954 • ... the art which joins all men together at their deepest and simplest level of response —Leslie A. Fiedler, Los Angeles Times Book Rev., 23 May 1971 There is no need to avoid familiar idioms like join together simply because the second word iterates and emphasizes part of the meaning of the first. See redundancy; wordiness. |
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