| 词组 | vigilant |
| 释义 | vigilant When vigilant is used with a preposition, the choice is most often against, in, or to: • ... we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe — Oliver Wendell Holmes d. 1935, Abrams et al. v. United States, 1919 • All of us ... must be vigilant in preserving our birthright —Adlai E. Stevenson, Speeches, ed. Richard Harrity, 1952 • We must be eternally vigilant to prevent that —Peter P. Muirhead, quoted in Change, October 1971 Occasionally, vigilant may be followed by about or for: • ... has always been cannily vigilant about the moneys coming in —Robert Lewis Taylor, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 1956 • The saints at table, ever vigilant for propriety, are uneasy —William Laurence Sullivan, Epigrams and Criticisms in Miniature, 1936 |
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