| 词组 | lack |
| 释义 | lack In and for are the prepositions used with the verb lack. Lack in has not been criticized, but the usage panel of Heritage 1969, 1982 prefers lack to lack for when no difference of meaning would result. We find, however, that the use with for turns up in negative constructions (the sample sentence offered by Heritage also has one) in standard writing. • He will not lack for strategists willing to explain the war —David Halberstam, Harper's, January 1969 • The middle-class suburbanite does not lack for doctors —Walter Goodman, Commentary, January 1972 • She never lacked for self-knowledge in the matter of vanity —Wright Morris, Plains Song, 1980 • Steve Lasker hasn't lacked for news experience since his teens —Frederick C. Klein, Wall Street Jour., 22 June 1983 We also have examples for lack used this way in folksy writing. Such an association may be the source of the Heritage criticism. • Here's hoping he'll never lack for friends —Mark Twain, The American Claimant, 1892 (OED Supplement) • Leon didn't lack for visitors the last few years —Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, 1985 One of our citations has a negative construction without for, but the direct object in this case is modified by "a few," whereas the objects in the examples above are unmodified. • ... certainly the river did not lack a few travelers — William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 |
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