| 词组 | prohibit |
| 释义 | prohibit A number of fairly recent books—Freeman 1983, Longman 1984, Copperud 1970, 1980—insist that prohibit should not be followed by to and an infinitive. This prohibitory admonition goes back through Partridge 1942 to Fowler 1926. The construction with to and the infinitive seems to be the original construction for prohibit in this particular sense. The earliest example in the OED is from Lord Berners, doing a little promotional work in the preface to his translation of Frois-sart's Chronicles. The doughty knight was explaining all the advantages that come from reading history; he notes how it makes young men equal to old men in prudence, and how it moves rulers and governors to do noble deeds, and so on and so on: • ... and it prohibiteth reprovable persons to do mischievous deeds, for fear of infamy and shame — 1523 The OED, having no examples of this construction later than the middle of the 18th century, supposed the construction archaic. Actually it appears to be one of those banes of the lexicographer, the low-frequency item. It had not, in fact, quite disappeared: • ... they are prohibited to add new names —H. C. Burdick, Sales Promotion by Mail, 1916 H. W. Fowler 1926 culled two examples from British newspapers. Taking the OED's archaic label to be an absolute, he decided that his modern examples must, therefore, be violations of idiom. Fowler himself must have used the prohibit from followed by an -ing construction that he prescribed. This construction, which is the common one in present-day English, is only attested in the OED from about 1840. • ... prohibiting anyone working for the commission from having any financial interest in a strip mining operation —Marion Edey, Not Man Apart, July 1971 • ... are prohibited from taking any job that involves contact or dealings with the government —Anthony Bailey, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 1971 Prohibit may also be followed by a noun or gerund direct object; no one has disputed these constructions: • ... prohibited the employment of workers under 16 —American Guide Series: North Carolina, 1939 • ... family finances prohibited his going to college — Current Biography 1953 Prohibit from can also be followed by a noun: • ... it should not be prohibited from prayer — George Bush, radio interview, 23 Aug. 1984 The dispute over the propriety of prohibit to followed by an infinitive boils down to this: it is the older idiom and if it has not fallen completely into disuse, it is certainly seldom used. Prohibit from followed by a gerund is the usual construction now. |
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