| 词组 | defect |
| 释义 | defect Bernstein 1965 claims that defect is followed by "in (an artifact); of (a person)" but the Merriam-Webster files do not support this distinction. Rather there is evidence that the two prepositions are used interchangeably in both American and British English: • Language is alive only by a metaphor drawn from the life of its users. Hence every defect in the language is a defect in somebody —Jacques Barzun, Atlantic, December 1953 • ... defect in a work [of art] is always traceable ultimately to an excess on one side or the other —John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934 • All such fanaticisms have in a greater or less degree the defect which I found in the Moscow Marxists — Bertrand Russell, London Calling, 24 Mar. 1955 • ... a permanent aristocracy, possessing the merits and defects of the Spartans —Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell, 1927 • ... because I have a speech defect, kind of a lisp, and I'm conscious of defects in others —Willis Crenshaw, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 29 July 1968 • In the coaster-brake business A. J.'s worst headache was the basic defect of all friction brakes: they wear out —M. M. Musselman, Atlantic, October 1945 • To give one example of Mrs. Dickson's defect of method, she quotes liberally —Times Literary Supp., 1 Mar. 1974 • ... due to defects both of legislation and of administration —Lillian L. Shapiro, Library Jour., 1 Jan. 1976 |
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