| 词组 | apportion |
| 释义 | apportion The verb apportion may idiomatically take the prepositions among, to, and between when a complementary prepositional phrase is required. Among has a certain cachet in writings on American government because of its use in the U.S. Constitution: • Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States —Article I, Section 2 • ... apportion the expenses among the member states —Frank Abbott Magruder, National Governments and International Relations, 1950 • It is left to the reader to apportion compassion ... among those who suffer in the novel —Frances Gaither, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 2 May 1954 To is about as frequent as among, between somewhat less frequent: • ... the roles are apportioned rather to episodes than to character —Richard Ellmann, Times Literary Supp., 21 May 1971 • ... the apportioning to each producer his share in goods and services —Kennard E. Goodman & William L. Moore, Today's Economics, 1960 • Nietzsche ... urges that the law should apportion special privileges to a cultural elite —Arthur Pap, Elements of Analytic Philosophy, 1949 • But he will be a brave man who will apportion responsibility for Britain's attitude between parties and classes —Roy Lewis & Angus Maude, The English Middle Classes, 1950 • ... difficult to apportion the responsibility between the two —Joseph Conrad, reprinted in Correct English, April 1939 • ... to apportion the judicial power between the supreme and inferior courts —John Marshall, Mar-bury v. Madison, 1803 |
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