| 词组 | plunge |
| 释义 | plunge When plunge is used with a preposition, it is used most often with into: • The death of an infant daughter had plunged her into the deepest melancholy —Dictionary of American Biography, 1928 • ... Mr. Hawkins, snatching the receiver, plunged into a long conversation with some unknown person —Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise, 1933 • Beneath it is the dining room into which a mountain waterfall plunges —American Guide Series: Oregon, 1940 • After the introduction, Horowitz plunges elbow-deep into the first solo sections —Abram Chasins, Saturday Rev., 26 Mar. 1955 • He plunged at once into the two reviews that I had recently written —Allen Tate, Prose, Fall 1971 Plunge is also frequently used with in: • ... bending over the dish-pan with her arms plunged in soapsuds —Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground, 1925 • ... he has ten years, more or less, in which to plunge his energy —John P. Frank, N. Y. Times, 3 Oct. 1954 • ... a puritan of a different type, who regards most of us as pretty irrevocably plunged in illusion —Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun, 1977 Less frequently, plunge is used with through or to: • ... rock-walled coulees through which a mighty river once plunged —American Guide Series: Washington, 1941 • The bears fare best who take a risk, such as ... plunging through a populated area —Edward Hoag-land, Harper's, February 1971 • ... saboteurs stuck limpet mines on two gun-running yachts, plunging them to the harbor's bottom —Newsweek, 30 Dec. 1957 • We drove into the smoke, and visibility plunged to near zero —Fred Ward, National Geographic, January 1972 Plunge is also used with beneath, down, for, on, over, toward, or towards: • ... the road plunged beneath over-arching trees — Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise, 1933 • ... the whole herd ... plunged down the steep bank of Sugar River —Edmund Wilson, New Yorker, 5 June 1971 • Those who plunge for any uncomplicated view of society are bound to have trouble in understanding ... natural law —Robert M. Hutchins, Center Mag., November/December 1971 • ... embezzling about $400,000 to plunge on the stock market —Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 6 May 1952 • ... plunged headlong over the side of the boat — Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958 • ... showed the world was plunging toward destruction —Oscar Handlin, The American People in the Twentieth Century, 1954 • ... as the Age of Reason plunged towards revolution —Times Literary Supp., 12 Nov. 1954 |
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