| 词组 | consistent |
| 释义 | consistent When consistent is used with a preposition, with is by far the most common: • Father John did not think it to be consistent with his dignity to answer this sally —Anthony Trollope, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, 1847 Other prepositions, although found less often, also appear in idiomatic English with consistent, the choice determined by the intended meaning: • ... the influence of America should be consistent in seeking for humanity a final peace —Franklin D. Roosevelt, fireside chat, 3 Sept. 1939, in Nothing to Fear, ed. B. D. Zevin, 1946 • The employed labor force in 1948 worked a weekly average of hours that was fairly consistent within the industry group —Collier's Year Book, 1949 • The anti-German element in French defence thinking is consistent throughout this period —Times Literary Supp., 27 Aug. 1971 • Hume, it will be remembered, was the most consistent of the empiricists —John H. Randall, Jr., The Making of the Modern Mind, 1926 • Opportunistic as to means, he was tenaciously consistent as to ends —Allan Nevins & Henry Steele Commager, The Pocket History of the U.S., 1942 |
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