| 词组 | convict |
| 释义 | convict When the verb convict is followed by a preposition, often the preposition is of: • ... was convicted of perjury and sentenced to prison —Stanley E. Dimond & Elmer F. Pflieger, Our American Government, 1961 • Big words are hopelessly out of place when they convict an author of insincerity —Eugene S. McCartney, Recurrent Maladies in Scholarly Writing, 1953 Less frequently, convict is used with on: • ... pronounced sentence on the defendents convicted on the indictment —International Military Trials—Nurnburg, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, 1947 • ... was convicted ... on the less serious charge — Current Biography 1947 Some language commentators deplore the use of for with convict, but it does not appear to be in widespread use. The Merriam-Webster files contain only one citation for it: • If we cannot convict some of them for their disloyal activities perhaps we can convict some of them for perjury —Joseph McCarthy, quoted in New Republic, 14 Feb. 1955 |
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