| 词组 | pronounce |
| 释义 | pronounce When pronounce is used with a preposition, generally it is found with on or upon. Both Raub 1897 and Bernstein 1965 (neither of whom mention pronounce upon) prescribe on with a thing; Bernstein allows only against with a person. Although pronounce on usually has a thing as its object, at times it does have a person. Pronounce upon occurs more often in British English than in American English. • "What would uncle Egmont have said of Lawrence Leffert's pronouncing on anybody's social position? ..." —Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920 • The Speaker was twice required to pronounce on the question of free speech —Guy Eden, Punch, 11 Mar. 1953 • ... I found Sonia... pronouncing on various writers she knew —David Plante, Difficult Women, 1983 • Whatever he has pronounced himself upon—linguistics, genetics, ... painting—his words have at once had the authority of holy writ —Malcolm Mug-geridge, Punch, 11 Mar. 1953 • ... the United States, where the courts habitually pronounce upon the constitutionality of statutes — Frederic A. Ogg & Harold Zink, Modern Foreign Governments, 1949 • ... his desire to influence others, to pronounce upon questions ... of the day —Roy Jenkins, The Times (London), 19 Nov. 1973 Pronounce also occurs, though less frequently, with in favor of or its counterpart against: • ... when civil war seemed inevitable he pronounced himself decidedly in favor of the Union —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 • ... liberal platforms regularly pronounce in favor of more vigorous anti-trust enforcement —Carl Kay-sen, New Republic, 22 Nov. 1954 • Receive it from me then: war and confusion In Caesar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee—Shakespeare, Cymbeline, 1610 • From his pinnacle of power ... Nikita Krushchev ... has pronounced against skyscrapers —Flora Lewis, N.Y. Times Mag., 3 Apr. 1955 Pronounce is also found occasionally with about: • ... when my friends pronounce responsibly about the values of creative work —William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl, 1978 Although these uses of pronounce with various prepositions are usually intransitive, uses with a reflexive pronoun as direct object are found, the examples from Muggeridge and Ryden above being typical. |
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