| 词组 | militate |
| 释义 | militate 1. According to our evidence, militate is almost always used with a preposition, and that preposition almost always is against: • ... the thickness of population ... is the thing that most militates against individual distinction —Sinclair Lewis, Good Housekeeping, May 1935 • ... what he hated about America ... was everything that militated against such a free life —Mark Schorer, New Republic, 6 Apr. 1953 • ... this has happened rarely so far, and a factor militating against the possibility is the variety of outlets of the reprint houses —James T. Farrell, Literature and Morality, 1947 Occasionally militate is used with in favor (of): • This fact alone militates in favor of Tunisia's French connection —Ray Alan, New Republic, 20 Sept. 1954 • ... considerations which at the time militated in their favor —Walter Millis, N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 9 Feb. 1947 Although Richard Grant White writing in 1870 cautioned against using militate against and Ambrose Bierce in 1909 declared "there is no such word," militate has been around since 1642 and continues in widespread use in contemporary English. Modern commentators do not object to it. 2.See mitigate. |
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