| 词组 | cling |
| 释义 | cling Cling is an irregular verb of the same class that climb formerly belonged to. It had principal parts analogous to those of ring: clang, clung. Clang was the singular form of the past tense; it has dropped out of standard use, although the OED notes it continuing in northern dialect through the 19th century. Presumably people from the northern areas of Great Britain brought it to this country. The Dictionary of American Regional English calls it archaic, but it is still around, although it is rare: • I clang to it —University of Massachusetts undergraduate, in conversation, 19 Nov. 1979 The OED notes some use of the regular inflection dinged in the 17th and 18th centuries; by the 19th the OED considered the form dialectal. It, too, is rare but not obsolete: • Bryant, once up 7-3, clinged ... to a 7-6 margin — Dick Baker, Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, 24 Apr. 1980 The majority of us use clung: • He clung to the railing —E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, 1975 • They clung to what gave their status meaning in a desperate embrace of the past —Barbara W. Tuch-man, in The Contemporary Essay, ed. Donald Hall, 1984 • ... early morning mist clung to the river —John Rowe, Count Your Dead, 1968 |
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