| 词组 | conformity |
| 释义 | conformity When followed by a preposition, conformity usually takes to or with. With is perhaps slightly more common, but the difference is small, if there is any: • Conformity to the discipline of a small society had become almost his second nature —Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920 • Ideas are tested not in give and take, but in their conformity to doctrine —Ward Just, Atlantic, October 1970 • In conformity with his father's wishes —Current Biography, April 1967 • ... in conformity with international law —Foreign Affairs, July 1940 A common phrase in the annual reports of many businesses is typified by this example: • ... in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles—Annual Report, Owens-Illinois, 1970 Several special constructions should also be noted. When the things between which the relationship exists are both named after conformity, the preposition may be between or of: • ... this is conformity between the old and the new —T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," 1917, in Selected Essays, 1932 • ... the close conformity of many of the tortuous veins with relic structures —Jour, of Geology, September 1948 When the prepositional phrase specifies, instead, the area of thought or experience where the conformity exists, of or in may be found: • ... such grants encourage a conformity of approach to scientific problems —Henry T. Yost, Jr., AAUP Bulletin, September 1969 • Conformity in habit of growth should be maintained even more than conformity in texture —M. E. Bot-tomley, New Designs of Small Properties, rev. ed., 1948 |
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