| 词组 | connect |
| 释义 | connect Connect is regularly used with the prepositions with and to. Some commentators have tried to limit the use of with to figurative senses and of to to concrete senses; this restriction is generally but not always followed in practice. There is a tendency for with to go with figurative senses and to to go with literal senses, but fully idiomatic exceptions are not hard to find. Some examples of with: • His policy was identical with Lincoln's, but he was unable to connect with Northern sentiment —Samuel Eliot Morison, Oxford History of the American People, 1965 • The alleged message ... simply does not connect with the plot of the film —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Saturday Rev., 15 Apr. 1978 • Military leaders, particularly those connected with the Air Force, vehemently disagreed —Jon M. Van Dyke, Center Mag., July/August 1970 • ... realized that if he was going to connect with his generation he had better start finding out about America —Anthony Wolff, Saturday Rev., 26 Aug. 1972 • I don't connect her with Christmas, but maybe I connect her with joy —Robert Henderson, New Yorker, 24 Dec. 1967 • ... the power of language to connect us with the world —Harry Levin, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 5 Aug. 1979 • ... the trading centers which connect Finland with the outside world —Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington, Europe, 1935 • ... built roads connecting the Fezzan with Tunisia —Collier's Year Book, 1949 • We have plotted a few points and connected them with a smooth curve —School Mathematics Study Group, Calculus of Elementary Functions, Part I, 1969 • He must nose a heavy ferryboat into a ... slip and connect the bow with a bridge —Leonard A. Stevens, Saturday Evening Post, 30 June 1956 Here are a few examples of to: • ... to measure people's responsiveness by connecting them to wires and laboratory devices —Marcia Seligson, McCall's, March 1971 • ... long staircases that connect to the road —Ford Truck Times, Summer 1970 • None of Thaw's impressive series of five Goyas overtly connects to death —Thomas B. Hess, New York, 26 Jan. 1976 • The draft is what connects Kansas Wesleyan to the war —Calvin Trillin, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 1967 Two things may also be connected by still another thing: • ... we connect the points by a smooth curve — School Mathematics Study Group, Elementary Functions, 1965 The world of sports has its own set of prepositions: • ... connected for his first home run since Aug. 19 — Jim Fox, Springfield (Mass.) Union, 25 Sept. 1967 • Finding Morris Bradshaw free, he connected with him on a 50-yard scoring pass —Ron Reid, Sports Illustrated, 6 Aug. 1979 • ... Sipe connected on a 45-yard bomb to Reggie Rucker—Gerald Eskenazi, N.Y. Times, 8 Dec. 1980 |
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