词组 | zeal |
释义 | zeal One may either have zeal for doing something or zeal to do something: • Wilson's zeal for converting the world to American virtues —Milton Viorst, Interplay, February 1969 • ... has allowed his zeal for overlooking no one to lead him into being inconclusive —Saturday Rev., 19 Dec. 1953 • In its zeal to protect itself from liability —John C. Burton, Arthur Young Jour., Winter/Spring 1971 • ... and genuine zeal to throw off colonialism —Jon Stewart, Mother Jones, June 1979 Where the object is a noun rather than a verbal, for is the usual preposition after zeal: • ... confessed that Chinese youth lack zeal for the Revolution —Alex Campbell, New Republic, 2 Apr. 1966 • ... there was no widespread zeal for the idea —Ben Harte, The Lamp, Spring 1972 |
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