| 词组 | concerned |
| 释义 | concerned When concerned suggests worry or anxiety, it can be followed by any of several prepositions. The most frequent are about and for: • ... were concerned about both their children — Eileen Hughes, Ladies' Home Jour., September 1971 • ... especially concerned about the effects of extended use —T. George Harris, Psychology Today, May 1971 • ... she was deeply concerned about them —Gail Cameron, Ladies' Home Jour., August 1971 • "... I'm rather concerned for the poor devil " —Michael Arlen, These Charming People, 1924 • ... young people of today are concerned for others —Elisabeth Elliot, Christian Herald, June 1967 Over, at, and by are also used: • ... educators have been greatly concerned over the reading program in the elementary grades —Catherine Zimmer & Majorie Pratt, Quarterly Jour, of Speech, April 1941 • ... was concerned at the mounting indignation of the people against Americans —Robert Payne, Saturday Rev., 27 June 1953 • The Kremlin was getting increasingly concerned by the stubborn survival of... Christianity, inside the Soviet Union —Time, 23 Aug. 1954 When concerned conveys the notion of interested engagement, with is the most common preposition: • concerned with obtaining Congressional approval —Eli Ginzberg, Columbia Forum, Fall 1970 • This book is more concerned with the earlier peoples than with the Incas —Edward P. Lanning, Peru Before the Incas, 1967 • They are concerned with the way individual human situations snowball into political situations —Erica Jong, Barnard Alumnae, Winter 1971 In is also used. It tends to suggest involvement: • The British have been deeply concerned in foreign relations for a thousand years —Joyce Cary, Holiday, November 1954 • ... none of the states which we wanted invited to the peace conference could be said to be not directly concerned in the peace —James F. Byrnes, broadcast speech, 5 Oct. 1945 In is used especially when something criminal is suggested: • Was Mary Thoday ... really after all concerned in the theft? —Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, 1934 • ... a charge of being concerned in registering bets on horses —Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, 23 June 1953 • ... accused of being concerned in murdering Thomas Smithson —The Times (London), 24 Jan. 1974 Concerned in the following three examples rather blends the notions of worry and interest: • ... not particularly interested in perspective, but he was much concerned about techniques of painting —Current Biography, May 1967 • ... he has always been concerned for the relevance of philosophy—Times Literary Supp., 19 Feb. 1970 • ... is as concerned with status and prestige as the businessman is —Stephanie Dudek, Psychology Today, May 1971 When concerned suggests interest or care, it can also be followed by to and an infinitive. Our evidence shows this practice currently more common in British English than in American: • ... is concerned only to present one side of the case —Times Literary Supp., 26 June 1969 • ... some of the subjects were concerned not to make fools of themselves —Bert R. Brown, Psychology Today, May 1971 • ... is concerned to depict the tangled politics of Renaissance Italy —British Book News, April 1953 • ... a single department concerned to carry out a single policy —E. H. Carr, Foreign Affairs, October 1946 |
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