词组 | burst |
释义 | burst The usual past and past participle is burst: • Tuesday about 400 persons burst into a Santa Barbara city council meeting —Berkeley Barb, 17 Apr. 1969 • ... and then to her shame she burst into tears — Daphne du Maurier, Ladies' Home Jour., September 1971 The past and past participle bursted is not wrong, as some handbooks suggest, but it is old-fashioned in writing and dialectal in speech. • ... something of the sundering energy of a bursted shell comes vividly before my senses —Rhys Carpenter, The Esthetic Basis of Greek Art, 1921 We have no recent evidence for bursted in print; the Dictionary of American Regional English records recent evidence in speech. See also bust. |
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