| 词组 | derive |
| 释义 | derive Derive is usually used with a prepositional-phrase complement, which nearly always begins with from: • Mr. Vidal's Lincoln, however, derives from the mainstream of modern scholarship —Joyce Carol Oates, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 3 June 1984 • ... the social stratum from which he derived —Carl Van Dören, The American Novel, 1940 In an analogous way, derive is also found, though less frequently, with the adverb therefrom and the conjunction whence, both of which are equivalent to a phrase introduced by from: • Her characters do not move in an ordered, stable world and derive therefrom a personal sense of order —William Van O'Connor, in Forms of Modern Fiction, and its ed., 1948 • ... the sound-signs whence are derived the alphabets of the civilised world —Edward Clodd, The Story of the Alphabet, 1900 In our files there are a few instances for the use of derive with in, of, out, and through: • ... the two electoral triumphs by Woodrow Wilson derived essentially in the inability of the Republicans to compromise —Cortez A. M. Ewing, in Aspects of American Government, ed. Sydney D. Bailey, 1950 • ... derived of the poorest African stock —Melville J. Herskovits, Saturday Rev., 10 Jan. 1942 • Modern international law, deriving out of the summary by Hugo Grotius —Frederic L. Paxson, PreWar Years 1913-1917, 1936 • ... the cherub of our grave-stone cutters is derived through the Hebrews —Edward Clodd, The Story of the Alphabet, 1900 At one time derive was also used with to; this usage, along with the sense conveyed, is now archaic: • ... inconvenience that will be derived to them from stopping all imports —Thomas Jefferson, Writings, ca. 1826 (OED) |
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