词组 | commend |
释义 | commend When commend means "praise," it is usually used in the pattern "commend someone for" or "commend someone on": • ... his wife seriously commended Mr Collins for having spoken so sensibly —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 • ... commended her for her beautiful grasp and projection of the role —Current Biography, April 1966 • ... commended the membership on carrying on a half-million dollar operation with a quarter-million dollar budget —George W. Corrigan, Connecticut Teacher, April 1963 When it means "entrust" or "recommend," the pattern is usually "commend someone or something to": • Richard had commended her to the care of Lord Mountfalcon —George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 1859 • To thy fraternal care Thy sister I commend—W. S. Gilbert, The Yeomen of the Guard, 1888 • ... a university don ... who had ventured to commend "Leaves of Grass" to the young gentlemen of his seminary —H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920 • These two counts alone are sufficient to commend the authors to the wise and wary —Oscar Cargill, CEA Critic, March 1971 • ... the limits beyond which the Church cannot go in commending itself to Free Churchmen —T. S. Eliot, "Thoughts After Lambeth," in Selected Essays, 1932 |
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