词组 | mediate |
释义 | mediate Mediate is most often used with between when it takes a preposition: • ... our theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences —William James, Pragmatism, 1907 • I want to mediate between the two of you now, because if this breach continues it will be the ruin of us all —Robert Graves, I, Claudius, 1934 • ... he mediates between the pole of nature and that of civilization —Robert Penn Warren, Democracy and Poetry, 1975 Occasionally, mediate is used with for: • The learned professions have evolved to mediate for the individual —Ralph Crawshaw, Center Mag., May 1969 Although Bernstein 1965 notes the use of mediate with among, our evidence shows that this use is infrequent: • ... the process of mediating among conflicting purposes and the anticipated needs of more than one reader —C. H. Knoblauch, College Composition and Communication, May 1980 Mediate is also found quite frequently in its transitive uses with to or through: • ... émigrés, who not only mediated western ideas to Russia ... —Times Literary Supp., 11 Oct. 1947 • ... the individuals who, in the various cultural settings, mediate the culture to the child —Margaret Mead, in Personality in Nature, Society and Culture, ed. Clyde Kluckhohn & Henry A. Murray, 1950 • ... what were once conceptions become the inherent meanings of material mediated through sense — John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934 • ... whose ideas are never likely to reach the common reader, except as mediated through the prose of shallower ... disciples —Times Literary Supp., 3 Sept. 1954 |
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