| 词组 | pregnant |
| 释义 | pregnant When pregnant is used with a preposition, it is usually with: • Every hour was pregnant with monotony and weariness —C. S. Forester, The African Queen, 1935 • We can impart to youth the meaning of life and their part in making history. But the words must be pregnant with fulfillment —William O. Douglas, Being an American, 1948 • ... create situations as pregnant with danger as with promise —Richard H. Rovere, New Yorker, 25 July 1953 • The new physics is pregnant with revelations for everyone interested in the cosmos —Timothy Ferris, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 20 Nov. 1983 Pregnant also occurs, although less often and in varying relations, with by, for, in, and of: • This time she's pregnant by a cad who won't marry her —John McCarten, New Yorker, 13 May 1950 • ... to see that the present is pregnant for the future, rather than a revolt against the past —Malcolm Bradbury, Times Literary Supp., 25 Apr. 1968 • ... one of the indelible performances of my operatic experience, as rich in reality as it is pregnant in overtones —Claudia Cassidy, Europe—On the Aisle, 1954 • Its five component essays are as pregnant of ideas as the leitmotif is of thematic metamorphoses —Times Literary Supp., 23 May 1968 |
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