| 词组 | mastery |
| 释义 | mastery Both Lincoln Library 1924 and Bernstein 1965 note a distinction in preposition usage with the word mastery: it is mastery of a subject but over a person. Actual usage shows that things are not so clearcut. Generally, mastery of is, in fact, found when something impersonal is involved: • ... had still far to go before he obtained absolute mastery of the government —J. H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century, 1950 • Mastery of one's own discipline can be a lifework — Irving Kolodin, Saturday Rev., 29 Jan. 1972 • ... mastery of managerial techniques —William H. Whyte, Jr., The Organization Man, 1956 However, use of mastery of may occasionally involve persons: • ... leading on towards mastery of ourselves and our environment —Bertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life, 1926 Mastery over is found less often, but it too involves something impersonal more frequently than it involves persons: • ... the mastery of the Alexandrians over the difficult art of the textbook —Benjamin Farrington, Greek Science, 1953 • The sun resumed its blessed mastery over the land —Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted, 1951 • It's amazing ... the complete mastery he's held over them —Ned Martin, radio baseball broadcast, 30 Apr. 1975 |
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