| 词组 | provide |
| 释义 | provide When provide is used intransitively, it is most often used with for: • ... provide for the common defense —Constitution of the United States, 1787 • And no sooner he's provided for than he turns on you —Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913 • ... an Automobile Accident Compensation Board would provide for strict liability —Samuel H. Hof-stadter, N. Y. Times Mag., 21 Feb. 1954 • The contract provided for increased wages, pensions, insurance —Current Biography, November 1965 When provide is used transitively to mean "to supply or make available," the recipient of the provision is frequently named in a prepositional phrase beginning with for or to: • ... a discontent which has provided fertile soil for the agitator —L. S. B. Leakey, Mau Mau and the Kikuyu, 1952 • A new Urban Service Corps providing public employment for unemployed youth —James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs, 1961 • ... it will provide nearly eleven-million units of electricity to people in rural areas —London Calling, 18 Feb. 1954 • Provide schools and teachers to all children and illiteracy goes down dramatically —Peter Rossi, Trans-Action, June 1967 But when provide is used transitively to mean "to make something available to," the thing being provided is usually named in a prepositional phrase introduced by with: • The bereaved woman was provided with a collection of gruesome anecdotes —Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground, 1925 • The route is well provided with signs —American Guide Series: New Hampshire, 1938 • ... a collection of short stories, like a sketch-book, may provide him with an ideal form —Times Literary Supp., 23 Apr. 1970 When provide is used transitively to mean "to stipulate," it is often followed by a clause: • The next year the assembly provided that the fort be given to Abraham Wood for three years —American Guide Series: Virginia, 1941 • ... the Mutual Security Treaty, which provides that in June, 1970, either party may give notice —William O. Douglas, Center Mag., March 1969 Provide is also used both transitively and intransitively with against: • ... but can Congress predict, and provide against, every emergency in which quick action might be essential? —Elmer Davis, But We Were Born Free, 1954 • ... a cushion must sometimes be provided against too sudden deflation —Thurman W. Arnold, The Bottlenecks of Business, 1940 |
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