| 词组 | conform |
| 释义 | conform When conform is followed by a preposition, it is most likely to be either to or with. According to our evidence, the use of to is more frequent by a considerable margin: • ... unwilling to conform to American ways —Oscar Handlin, The American People in the Twentieth Century, 1954 • ... in 1984, the members of the Party are compelled to conform to a sexual ethic of more than Puritan severity —Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958 • ... have modified my views of conduct to conform with what seem to me the implications of my beliefs —T. S. Eliot, "Thoughts After Lambeth," in Selected Essays, 1932 Another adverbial prepositional phrase may sometimes intervene between conform and the phrase with to or with: • ... provided they conform in dimensions to those publicly owned —Charlton Ogburn, Harper's, October 1971 |
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