| 词组 | aspire |
| 释义 | aspire Bernstein 1965 will allow us to, after, and toward as prepositions; Raub 1897, to and after; Evans 1957, the infinitive. All are in use except for after, of which we have no evidence in the Merriam-Webster files and which is unattested after 1794 in the OED. At is attested a bit later: • ... others aspired at nothing beyond his remembering the catchword, and the first line of his speech — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814 To is the predominant preposition: • ... the social class to which they aspire —James Sledd, in The English Language Today, ed. Sidney Greenbaum, 1985 • ... students who do not aspire to graduate school — Nicholas S. Thompson, Change, October 1971 • ... aspire to prestigious cultural properties —Pauline Kael, Harper's, February 1969 • ... the Russian aspires to hard, materialist, dialec-tically sound explanations —Arthur Miller, Harper's, September 1969 • ... a wife who aspires to the style of life affected by her sister —Playboy, April 1966 • ... Romans who aspired to philosophy —Benjamin Farrington, Greek Science, 1953 To followed by the infinitive is also common: • Aspiring to be the leader of a nation of third-rate men —H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920 • ... aspired to become a professional breeder of ferrets—Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, 1919 • In a country that aspires to be democratic —Robert M. Hutchins, Center Mag., March 1968 • ... those who merely aspire to clean up a mess — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, 1958 Toward and towards are both found: • ... it aspires toward a ritualization of conflict — Irving Howe, Harper's, April 1970 • ... the literary values towards which he aspired — Times Literary Supp., 25 Jan. 1968 For is sometimes used: • The Administration still seems to aspire for what is vaguely called an honorable agreement —J. William Fulbright, The Progressive, June 1969 |
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