| 词组 | cause |
| 释义 | cause 1. Copperud 1970 says that the expression "the cause ... is due to" is redundant. Perhaps it is, but we have no reason to believe that anyone uses it, at least in print. We have examined our entire file of the citations collected for cause during the past half century without finding a single example. H. W. Fowler seems to have found it once in a British newspaper sometime before 1926. Perhaps it is time to forget the matter. 2. The noun cause may be followed by the prepositions of and for: • ... used his fame to champion the cause of the handicapped —Current Biography, January 1966 • ... New Englanders realize that the cause for land preservation is not yet hopeless —Eleanor Sterling, Yankee, July 1968 • ... admitted that recent bank failures were a cause of concern —Current Biography, July 1965 • ... there would be little cause for apprehension at the present time —Robert A. Nisbet, Psychology Today, March 1971 |
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