| 词组 | ponder |
| 释义 | ponder When Simon 1980 looks askance at ponder with used in speech by an academic, we cannot be sure whether he is finding fault with the idiomatic use of with or whether he believes ponder is only a transitive verb. Since intrasitive use dates back to Shakespeare, we will assume the question is the idiom. The quoted ponder with may have been a nonce syntactic blend of ponder and struggle with or wrestle with, for we have no other examples of ponder with in our files. The prepositions usually used with ponder are on and over: • ... should ponder deeply on these aspects of imaginative writing —Leacock 1943 • ... can help us to ponder on what Saint Augustine meant —Robert Penn Warren, Democracy and Poetry, 1975 • ... pondered over God's greatness —Henry O. Taylor, The Mediaeval Mind, 4th ed., 1925 • ... another interesting example to ponder over — Nehemiah Jordan, Themes in Speculative Psychology, 1968 Sometimes we find about or upon: • ... those who are disposed to ponder about the state —V. O. Key, Jr., New Republic, 10 Aug. 1953 • ... the identity of him upon whom I had so often pondered —Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences, 1950 |
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