| 词组 | array |
| 释义 | array The verb array is used with many prepositions. When used in the sense of "dress," it usually takes in: • ... the subsequent arraying of their persons in the poppy-colored jerseys that she considered suitable to the gloom of the day —Elizabeth Goudge, Pilgrim's Inn, 1948 • ... arrayed in gaudy attire —Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, 1885 • ... had arrayed herself in lipstick, rouge, perfume — Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar, 1955 If the sense is close to "equip," in or with may be used: • ... almost every county of England arrayed in arms against the throne —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 • ... arrayed with the most advanced equipment — General Electric Investor, Summer 1972 Many prepositions are used when the meaning is "to get or place in order": • ... had his students arrayed on the stage —Gilbert Rogin, New Yorker, 5 June 1971 • They arrayed themselves before us —Leon Uris, Battle Cry, 1953 • ... chairs were rounded up and arrayed in front of the Muller platform —John Brooks, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 1957 • ... chairs arrayed before a platform —Clifton Daniel, N.Y. Times Mag., 12 Dec. 1954 • Food was his material; his life's art was to array it upon mahogany and damask —British Books of the Month, March 1953 • ... scarcely had time to array his men at the town-ward wall —A. C. Whitehead, The Standard Bearer, 1915 • ... four brass buttons arrayed in a hollow square — Lois Long, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 1954 When there is a notion of drawing up forces, against is usual: • ... arraying formidable resources against persons who gather and disseminate news —Playboy, April 1973 • ... the French encyclopedists, who were arrayed against the church —Harry S. Ashmore, Center Occasional Papers, February 1971 • ... each group is arrayed against one or more other groups —Margaret Mead, in Personality in Nature, Society, and Culture, ed. Clyde Kluckhohn & Henry A. Murray, 1948 |
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