| 词组 | ask |
| 释义 | ask Evans 1957 notes that ask may be followed by an infinitive or a clause: • ... was asked to arrange and perform the music for the sound track —Current Biography, October 1966 • ... sent my brother upstairs to ask that I switch to the news —Otto Friedrich, Harper's, May 1971 • ... asks whether the appointment of chaplains to the two Houses of Congress is "consistent with the Constitution " —Joseph L. Blau, Rev. of Religion, No. 3, 1950 Raub 1897 prescribes as follows: "Ask of a person, for what is wanted, after one's health." • ... if you ask it of him, he returns a hasty negative —Henry Fairlie, N.Y. Times Mag., 11 July 1965 • ... the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925 Of may also be used with inanimate objects: • Comfort, beauty, and spacesaving efficiency are the three big things we ask of our rooms —Better Homes and Gardens, June 1954 From may be similarly used: • ... an increasing number were asking many things from philosophy —Henry O. Taylor, The Mediaeval Mind, 4th ed., 1925 For does indeed take what is wanted as its object: • ... getting a reasonable portion of what it was asking for —Philip D. Lang, quoted in Change, January-February, 1971 • Just yesterday a letter came in from a girl your age in South Carolina asking for biographical material —James Thurber, letter, 4 Jan. 1958 Ask for is often used idiomatically with trouble or it in a figurative sense: • Dili had been asking for trouble ever since she left school —Richard Vaughan, Moulded in Earth, 1951 • "You certainly made an ass of me today, Eloise. But I kept reminding myself that I was the one who had asked for it " —Louis Auchincloss, A Law for the Lion, 1953 After is indeed for health: • You ask after my health —Lord Byron, letter, 9 Sept. 1811 • Another time a friend asked after King George VI's health —H. Durant Osborne, Springfield (Mass.) Union, 24 Mar. 1955 When information is sought, ask is often used with the preposition about: • The truck driver would have asked about me in the drugstore —Phil Stong, New England Journeys, No. 3, 1955 When ask means "invite" it may be used with the adverb out or the preposition to: • ... the other young men in Sargentville asked Ann out —Charles Bracelen Flood, Omnibook, June 1954 • ... they were known collectively as the Grateful Hearts but seldom asked to the house —Osbert Lancaster, All Done From Memory, 1953 |
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