| 词组 | desirous |
| 释义 | desirous Desirous has been used with both of and to for a long time: • ... desirous at once of having her time to herself — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814 • I returned to London, very desirous to see Dr. Johnson —James Boswell, Life of SamuelJohnson, 1791 • ... King William the Third was desirous to ascertain the comparative strength of the religious sects —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 • Desirous of living on the cozy footing of a father-in-law —Herman Melville, Omoo, 1847 In contemporary writing, while desirous to is used now and then, desirous of is the more common construction: • They seem very desirous of getting back —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 1958 • ... poetry designed to appeal to ears desirous of rhetoric —Eric Partridge, British and American English Since 1900, 1951 |
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