| 词组 | justify |
| 释义 | justify When justify is used with a preposition, it often occurs with by or in. When by is used, it is followed more often by a noun, less often by a gerund; when in is used, it is followed more often by a gerund, less often by a noun: • ... their immediate jubilant reaction has been abundantly justified by the sales —Peter Forster, London Calling, 20 May 1954 • ... he did not so much apologize as justify both by argument and instance the life he had led —Irwin Edman, Atlantic, February 1953 • ... he tried to justify his enthusiasm by pretending that it was in truth an intellectual interest —Douglas Hubble, Horizon, August 1946 • His business was so nearly concluded as to justify him in proposing to take his passage —Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814 • When is a physician justified in not being completely candid with the patient? —Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 1 Oct. 1977 • ... their own lives are to be justified ... only in the accomplishment of their children —Romeyn Berry, N.Y. Times Mag., 16 May 1954 Less frequently, justify is used with as or to: • ... the playhouse was forced to justify itself as a serious cultural endeavor —American Guide Series: Pennsylvania, 1940 • ... Ruark himself justifies it as a journalistic device —Bruce Bliven, Jr., Saturday Rev., 23 Apr. 1955 • She loved him so much that she justified to herself his every fault —Ruth Park, The Harp in the South, 1948 • ... the physician is duty bound and morally justified to relieve suffering —Louis Lasagna, Johns Hopkins Mag., Spring 1968 Justify has occurred infrequently with for or of: • The decision to keep the original arrangement of the poems ... is entirely justifed for its critical value — Times Literary Supp., 19 Feb. 1971 • It is not necessarily and uniquely poetic, though it justifies itself of his poetic experience —Cyril Connolly, Horizon, April 1946 Justify, with some frequency, is also followed by the idiom(s) on (or upon) the ground(s): • ... Batista justified his seizure of power on the grounds of an alleged conspiracy —The Americana Annual 1953 • Locke justified the right of revolution not upon the ground of hostile acts of the people —Dictionary of American History, 1940 • The plan is justified on the ground that the farm cannot be divided —Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier, 1952 |
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