| 词组 | capable |
| 释义 | capable When followed by a preposition, capable nearly always appears with of: • ... when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 • ... individually so capable of charm —Edmund Wilson, A Piece of My Mind, 1956 • ... although he is not capable of using you ill —Jonathan Swift, "Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage," reprinted in Encore, June 1945 • ... I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818 • ... people who valued machines more than men were capable under these conditions of governing men —Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934 The last three illustrations above show capable of used with a gerund in the active voice. While occurring less frequently, capable of may be found used with a verb in the passive voice; although some language arbiters decry this construction, it has been used by careful writers for quite some time: • An ideal so expansive is no longer capable of being compressed —Selected Writings of Benjamin N. Cardozo, ed. Margaret E. Hall, 1947 • ... a formal doctrine, capable of being expressed in a few catchwords —Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934 • ... your language wardrobe is capable of being enlarged many times over —Jerome Martin & Dorothy Carnahan Olson, Patterns of Language, Level G (textbook), 1977 |
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