词组 | permit of |
释义 | permit of Copperud 1964, 1980 regards the of in permit of as superfluous, but he concedes that its use is standard. Like admit of and allow of permit of is almost always used with an impersonal subject. Its sense is "to make possible," and its use in place of the transitive permit is especially appropriate in describing something that simply by its nature does or does not make something else possible: • ... there are very few matters ... that do not permit of a difference of opinion —O. S. Nock, The Railways of Britain, 1947 • Enough ratings are to hand to permit of some definitive judgment —Jack Gould, N. Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1957 • ... wartime paper restrictions do not permit of my attempting to publish —C. L. Wrenn, Word and Symbol, 1967 (essay first published in 1943) See also admit 3; allow 2. |
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