| 词组 | preside |
| 释义 | preside Preside is most commonly found with over: • ... Marian Anderson ... presided over an all-American musical program —Eric F. Goldman, Harper's, January 1969 • ... three judges are usually assigned to preside over the district court —Rev. Joseph N. Moody & Joseph F. X. McCarthy, Man the Citizen, 1957 • ... made one feel that the occasion was not a party over which he was presiding but a species of mixed smoker —Edmund Wilson, Memoirs of Hecate County, 1946 • Vice-president Boucher presided, first over the bar and buffet, then over the business meeting —Third Degree, September 1947 • It is not the nature of the Mayor or the men around him to preside over the dismemberment of their empire —Dan Cordtz, New York, 22 Nov. 1971 • ... Berlin was always a place presided over by the camera —Stephen Spender, TV. Y. Times Mag., 30 Oct. 1977 Somewhat less frequently, preside is used with at: • Ella presided at the punch bowl —William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951 • ... will preside at a Judgment Day, when the saved will be winnowed from the damned —Edmund Wilson, A Piece of My Mind, 1956 • The two visible objects, the original and the copy, differ because that which ordered the work of art does not preside at the manufacture of the copy — Clive Bell, Art, 1914 • As Council president, Impellitteri presided at its three or four meetings each month —Current Biography 1951 Preside is also sometimes used with in: • Carpetbaggers sat in every legislature, presided in every court, and ruled from every statehouse —Marshall Smelser & Harry W. Kirwin, Conceived in Liberty, 1955 • ... the mayor presides in council meetings in cities of Illinois —Frederic A. Ogg & P. Orman Ray, Introduction to American Government, 8th ed., 1945 |
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