| 词组 | persuade |
| 释义 | persuade Persuade is most often used with to and an infinitive: • ... persuading young people to make one of the sciences ... their life's work —Russell H. Johnsen, Scientific Monthly, January 1954 • ... is deputed by the firm of lawyers to which he belongs to persuade her to resume her married life —Anthony Powell, Punch, 8 Apr. 1953 • ... his test is not so much what happened as what he believes he can persuade other people to believe — John Kenneth Galbraith, Saturday Rev., 6 Nov. 1971 Occasionally to is followed by a noun: • ... persuading the attention of the variable human mind to Divine objects —T. S. Eliot, "Lancelot Andrewes," in Selected Essays, 1932 • Persuaded to the hospital for examination and medications, he insisted on returning home —Larry L. King, Harper's, April 1971 Persuade occurs quite frequently with a clause: • The reading of the card persuaded me that he was dead —James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914 • Slowly his anger grew He even persuaded himself that he felt jealousy —Edith Sitwell, Fanfare for Elizabeth, 1946 • ... the palpable effort of that book to persuade that Concord was a Brook Farm where no Hawthorne ever worked on a dung-hill —Alfred Kazin, Partisan Rev., September-October 1940 It is somewhat less often used with of, by, or into: • I doubted that my father was persuaded of approaching great comfortableness —Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell, 1946 • ... his anxiety to refute polemical over-simplifications and persuade the reader of his objectivity — Dennis H. Wrong, Change, April 1972 • ... I might be persuaded by your eloquence —Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's, January 1972 • ... films designed to persuade and convince by an appeal to emotions —Report: Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters & Sciences, 1949-1951 (Ottawa, Canada) • The speech ... persuades us into accepting her surrender —T. S. Eliot, "Thomas Heywood," in Selected Essays, 1932 • ... persuading her (the car) into a truck after baffling the plans of the shunters for smashing her —George Bernard Shaw, letter, 19 Aug. 1912 And, to give you an idea of the wide assortment of prepositions used with persuade, here are examples of as to, from, out of with, and upon, with which it is found occasionally: • She could not persuade herself as to the advisability of her promise —Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900 • Pickets are then sent to the plant gates to persuade others from taking the places of the strikers —New Republic, 20 Jan. 1937 • "... This brother of yours would persuade me out of my senses, Miss Morland...." —Jane Austen, Nor-thanger Abbey, 1818 • ... to persuade the intelligence with reason rather than to overwhelm it with a profusion of detail — Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier, 1952 • ... his ministers will clearly have difficulty in persuading it upon ordinary people —David Wood, The Times (London), 19 Nov. 1973 See also convince, persuade. |
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