| 词组 | capacity |
| 释义 | capacity Capacity, when it refers to ability, potential, facility, or power, may be followed by to and the infinitive: • ... has the capacity ... to experiment with a variety of novelistic techniques —John W. Aldridge, Saturday Rev., 6 Sept. 1975 • ... the capacity to live and learn, as it were —Maxwell Geismar, American Moderns, 1958 It may also be followed by the preposition for and a noun: • ... astounding him with their fearless capacity for denouement —Robert Coover, Harper's, January 1972 • ... she developed a fine capacity for mischief — George Eliot, Silas Marner, 1861 A gerund phrase may follow the preposition when capacity is used with for: • ... demonstrate a capacity for solving the critical problems in our own society —James M. Gavin, "On Post Cold War Strategy," Center Report, June 1972 • ... his capacity for feeling snubbed by those whose superiority he recognized —Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865, rev. ed., 1946 Capacity in this sense may even be found with of and a noun, although this combination is less frequent: • ... bold adventurous people without nerves, minds, or the capacity of observation —Archibald Mac-Leish, Yale Rev., Autumn 1941 • If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 Of may also be followed by a gerund phrase, but this use is infrequent: • ... when they wanted the capacity of interesting those who wished to dedicate themselves —Lawrence J. Shehan, Bulletin of the National Catholic Education Association, August 1949 • David Lloyd George in England also had the capacity of glamorizing himself —Victor L. Albjerg, Current History, September 1952 When capacity is used to designate volume, the preposition of follows it: • One modern cement elevator has a storage capacity of 114,000 barrels —American Guide Series: Minnesota, 1938 When denoting a position or role, capacity is used a little more often in the construction in his (her, our, etc.) capacity as, than in the construction in the (his, her, etc.) capacity of: • ... in their capacity as historians they have pointed out the effect of specific economic factors —John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, 1939 In the capacity of vice-president of the federation — Current Biography 1950 capital, capitol There are a number of things the spelling capital is used for—letters, money, cities—but capitol always refers to a building, even when used figuratively: • Not going to my grandmother's side of the road was an impossibility ... for Ida Rebecca's house was the capitol of Morrisonville —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 |
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