| 词组 | confide |
| 释义 | confide In its intransitive senses confide is often used with in: • "... I have been so nearly caught once or twice already, that I cannot confide any longer in my own ingenuity" —Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, 1818 • ... patients too awed by the doctor to confide in him —Leonard Gross, McCall's, March 1971 The use of in with confide was mentioned as long ago as 1795 in Murray's Grammar, where he corrects on to in: • "Intrusted to persons on whom the parliament could confide;" "in whom." Confide may also be followed by a dependent clause: • One husband confided that his wife buys an extra supply of cards —Goodman Ace, Saturday Rev., 13 Nov. 1971 In its transitive senses, confide may be followed by to and the indirect object, which may be found before or after the direct object: • ... began confiding to her all the daily twists and turns in her affair with a waiter —Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar, 1955 • ... do not confide your children to strangers — Mavis Gallant, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 1964 |
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