| 词组 | angry |
| 释义 | angry From Vizetelly 1906 to Chambers 1985 much advice and prescription has been written about the prepositions that can be used with angry. Much of the discussion deals with whether the object of the anger is human, animal, or inanimate; often particular prepositions are prescribed for particular objects. Much of the prescription is plainly in conflict with actual usage, such as Shaw 1970's "Idiomatically, one is angry with, not at, a person."Angry at (a person) has been around since Shakespeare's time (the OED cites Timon of Athens, 1607) and is still in use. The chief prepositions are with, at, and about. With is the most frequently used preposition when the object is a person: • Indeed, be not angry with her, bud —William Wych-erly, The Country Wife, 1675 • I fancy I shall have reason to be angry with him very soon —Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella, 9 Aug. 1711 • I am sorry to be angry with you —Samuel Johnson ( 1776), in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791 • Be not angry with me, Coleridge —Charles Lamb, letter, 24 Oct. 1796 • She wanted somebody to be angry with —George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, 1859 • ... I hope she isn't angry with me for talking nonsense about her name —Lewis Carroll, letter, 28 Nov. 1867 • You have often made me angry with you, poor little innocent —George Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's Profession, 1886 • ... angry with herself for having suffered from it so much —Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913 • She was angry with Clare for crying —Rose Macau-lay, Potterism, 1920 • The author is very angry with anyone who dislikes the cockney manner of speech —Times Literary Supp., 20 Feb. 1953 • On this day Mary was angry with me —Ernest Hemingway, "Miss Mary's Lion," 1956 • He was angry with himself, still more angry with Rose— C. P. Snow, The New Men, 1954 • "... I get that it's okay to be angry with you." —R. D. Rosen, Psychobabble, 1977 With is sometimes used with inanimate or abstract objects: • ... angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him —James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916 • I think I was all the angrier with my own ineffectiveness because I knew the streets —The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1966 At is used with objects that are persons and objects that are actions or things: • I have heard some people so extravagantly angry at this play —George Farquhar, Preface to The Inconstant, 1702 • Yet I am angry at some bad Rhymes and Triplets — Jonathan Swift, letter, 28 June 1715 • I find no considerable Man angry at the Book — Alexander Pope, letter, 16 Nov. 1726 • "I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another...." —Samuel Johnson (1775), in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791 • ... there is nothing which makes us so angry at the people we love as their way of letting themselves be imposed upon —Margaret Deland, Old Chester Tales, 1898 • Jealous of the smallest cover, Angry at the simplest door;—D. H. Lawrence, Collected Poems, 1928 • I became angry at him and I went after him —Henry Clark, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 15 July 1968 • They might be angry at him —Gay Talese, Harper's, January 1969 About is used of persons or actions or things: • ... they are so angry about the affair of Duke Hamilton —Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella, 2 Feb. 1712 • Still it's better to have Mr. L. angry about her than about other topics —C. P. Snow, The Conscience of the Rich, 1958 • Mr. Reed is angry about what he perceives to be negative characterizations of black men in fiction and drama —Brent Staples, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 23 Mar. 1986 Other prepositions are also possible: • ... he feels angry towards your community —Fred Sharpe, 6th Annual Report, Peace Officers Training School, 1952 • She said, 'I was only angry for my sweet little baby.' —Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, 1956 It does not seem reasonable, on the basis of the evidence here and in the OED, to make rigid distinctions about which prepositions are proper in which uses. |
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