| 词组 | view |
| 释义 | view The phrase with a view usually takes the preposition to: • ... treating patients ... with a view to bringing about benefit, if not cure —Morris Fishbein, The Popular Medical Encyclopedia, 1946 • ... began acquiring Monhegan's wildlands ... with a view to preserving them in their natural state — Eleanor Sterling, Yankee, July 1968 Alternative prepositions are toward and of, both of which occur much less frequently than to: • ... studying the structure of the Federal Government, with a view toward reorganizing the executive branch —Current Biography 1947 • ... prompted the boy to turn back ... with a view of asking Miss Eustacia Vye to let her servant accompany him home —Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878 When the phrase is with the view rather than with a view, of'is almost invariably the preposition that follows: • ... accepted a second term as governor with the view of winning the United States senatorship —Dictionary of American Biography, 1928 The OED treats with a view of (for which the earliest evidence is from 1723), with a view to (1728), and with the view of (1827) as standard phrases. Fowler's preference in 1926 was for with a view to, although he also found with the view of acceptable. He considered with a view of to be a mistake, but it is not clear why he thought so. ( With a view toward is not mentioned in the OED or in Fowler.) Some later commentators have followed Fowler's lead in prescribing against with a view of, but this is not an issue that stirs deep feelings. One reason for the lack of vehemence in this case may be that, as our evidence shows, the favored phrase (with a view to) is also the one most commonly used. The other phrases should not be sneered at, however; although uncommon, they are standard variants with a long history of use. Fowler also disliked the use of the infinitive following with a view to, as in "with a view to preserve" rather than "... to preserving" or "... to preservation." His opinion may have had some effect in this case; although the OED includes several earlier citations for this use, our files contain not a single 20th-century example of it. |
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