| 词组 | protest |
| 释义 | protest I The noun protest is most often used with against: • ... resigned from the government in protest against the backstage maneuvering —Current Biography, September 1964 • The Communists termed "absurd" the U.S. protests against Red fighter plane attacks — Wall Street Jour., 30 July 1954 • ... this was a kind of strategic protest against her husband's double life —Van Wyck Brooks, Saturday Rev., 6 Mar. 1954 Protest is also followed by at: • He was also associated with the work of UNESCO, but resigned in protest at the admission of Franco's Spain —Current Biography, January 1964 • ... an immediate storm of public protest at the proposed use of park land for great buildings —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 Occasionally protest is found with of or to: • ... resigned from the "Voice of America" program in protest of this Kaghan discharge by ... the State Department's new security officer —T. R. B., New Republic, 8 June 1953 • ... have recalled their ambassadors in protest to the executions —radio news broadcast, 27 Sept. 1975 II Protest, when used with a preposition, usually appears with against: • He went here and there swearing and protesting against every delay —Sherwood Anderson, Poor White, 1920 • ... protesting with admirable chivalry against jesting at maiden ladies —Saxe Commins, Saturday Rev., 1 Sept. 1945 • ... the number of people who were protesting against the morals of the time —Gilbert Seldes, Saturday Rev., 13 Feb. 1954 • In the next decades Cotter practised in various places and continued to protest against his dismissal —Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1966 Occasionally protest has appeared with about, at, or over: • I sent her off to her address in a taxi ... : she protested about the expense —Edmund Wilson, Memoirs of Hecate County, 1946 • He protested at the usury laws of 1829 —Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1966 • He was protesting over losing his pilot's licence — The Sun (Melbourne), 14 Apr. 1975 While the use of intransitive protest with a preposition remains very common, this sense of protest used as a transitive verb without the preposition can be found about as often in the U.S. Against began to be omitted around the turn of the century—some have said in order to save space in newspaper headlines—and protest used alone has become established in American English. British English normally still uses protest against. Although some usage commentators have warned that confusion may arise if against is not used, our evidence shows that this has not been the case: • She marched with the pickets, protesting atmospheric testing —Dick Kleiner, Springfield (Mass.) Union, 14 Mar. 1966 • ... we who had originally contracted to distribute his books protested Gaige's hokus-pokus from the outset —Bennett Cerf, Saturday Rev., 2 Jan. 1954 • It has become customary for the Soviet Union to protest the seating of the delegates of the National Government of China —Philip C. Jessup, The Reporter, 6 July 1954 • ... she also became part of a politically oriented "gang of five" that protested Rostropovich —Martin Bernheimer, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 23 Sept. 1984 |
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