| 词组 | assimilate |
| 释义 | assimilate Bernstein 1965 says that assimilate takes to and infrequently with; this is true as far as it goes. To is indeed the most frequent preposition: • ... helping them assimilate to the conditions of urban American life —Louis Berkowitz, quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 May 1980 • ... expounding a science, or a body of truth which he seeks to assimilate to a science —Selected Writings Of Benjamin N. Cardozo, ed. Margaret E. Hall, 1947 • ... felt an aristocratic horror for anything that assimilated a man to a craftsman —Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 • Our manufacturing class was assimilated in no time to the conservative classes —H. G. Wells, Mr. Brit-ling Sees It Through, 1916 • But Mr. Eliot was the one who assimilated the French achievement to English literature —H. Marshall McLuhan, Sewanee Rev., Winter 1947 Into is the next most frequently used preposition: • Jews who had assimilated into German, Russian and other cultures —Elenore Lester, TV. Y. Times Mag., 2 Dec. 1979 • The Italian brilliance of execution was soon assimilated into the Russian style —Ivor Guest, The Dancer's Heritage, 1960 • In order to be assimilated into a collective medium a person has to be stripped of his individual distinctness —Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951 • ... poetry which attempted to assimilate the catastrophic events of the World War into the individual and social consciousness —Fred B. Millett, Contemporary British Literature, 3d ed., rev., 1944 By, as you would expect, indicates the agent: • ... I. was educated in, and assimilated by, the very bosom of the Yankee motherland —James Fallows, Harper's, February 1976 • ... conquered and forcibly assimilated by the West —Arnold J. Toynbee, Horizon, August 1947 With, in, and as are quite infrequent: • As the matured area assimilated itself with the region just to the east —Ray Allen Billington, Westward Expansion, 1949 • Some of the present hard-core unemployed can be assimilated in industry —Henry Ford II, Michigan Business Rev., July 1968 • Countless Chinese have truly been assimilated as Americans —Mary Ellen Leary, Atlantic, March 1970 |
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