词组 | mistrustful |
释义 | mistrustful Mistrustful is usually used with of when it takes a preposition: • ... mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 • ... the Russians are so mistrustful of everybody that they never know what to believe —Upton Sinclair, A World to Win, 1946 • ... be mistrustful of the ways of Western journalists —Norman Stone, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 28 Oct. 1984 Sometimes toward is used: • ... has described three such motherless children as ... mistrustful toward older people —Matthew Josephson, Southern Rev., Winter 1973 |
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