| 词组 | chastened |
| 释义 | chastened By and large, when chastened is used with a preposition, it is by: • ... were chastened but not defeated by the New Left experience —Michael Harrington, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 11 Mar. 1973 • ... the process by which what is private is chastened and socialized by being made to enter public life — Charles Frankel, Antioch Rev., Fall 1955 However, when chastened is used with a preposition, the choice of the preposition is dictated not by the meaning of the word, but rather by the meaning of the prepositional phrase. Thus, by denotes the agent doing the chastening and, among other prepositions that are used, for indicates the reason for the chastening and to, the state into which something is chastened or the extent of the chastening, while in may signify the circumstances that do the chastening: • ... the proud have been chastened for their manifest sins —Albert Guérard, Education of a Humanist, 1949 • ... his character chastened to a Christ-like degree — James D. Hart, The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste, 1950 • ... had been chastened in two marriages —Time, 29 Aug. 1955 |
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