词组 | obtrude |
释义 | obtrude Obtrude is used with a great many prepositions; those which occur most frequently are in, into, on, or upon: • ... contemptuous of anyone who allows the past to obtrude in the present —Robert Craft, Stravinsky, 1972 • It is interesting to note how progressive divergencies in pattern obtrude themselves in some species —J. Stevenson-Hamilton, Wild Life in South Africa, 1947 • We have to wait until the seventeenth century for a real democratic movement, obtruding itself into the Civil War —A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman & Nation, 29 Aug. 1953 • ... by otherwise obtruding his ego into the picture —Winthrop Sargeant, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 1953 • ... last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 • I'm not sure whether Miss Murdoch's novel needs that extra dimension of allusion, but it never obtrudes on the excitement —Derwent May, Saturday Rev., January 1981 • Phil stared at the sign with reproach, as though she thought it had ... no business obtruding itself upon her attention —Donald Barr Chidsey, Panama Passage, 1946 • ... a clergyman, committed to the religious point of view, but he obtrudes no dogma upon the reader — Gerald W. Johnson, New Republic, 8 Feb. 1954 Obtrude is also used with before and between, but these appear less often: • ... obstacles and impediments will obtrude themselves before your gaze —Selected Writings of Benjamin N. Cardozo, ed. Margaret E. Hall, 1947 • Whenever the mechanics of language obtrude between a poet and his experience —Times Literary Supp., 22 Oct. 1971 |
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