| 词组 | purge |
| 释义 | purge Purge is most often used with of, and the object names what is gotten rid of: • ... whose minds were to be purged of all the natural decencies, of all the laboriously acquired inhibitions of traditional civilization —Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932 • ... the room had never quite been purged of the bad taste of preceding generations —Edmund Wilson, Memoirs of Hecate County, 1946 • ... allowed even enemy aliens to purge themselves of the guilt of their emperors —Oscar Handlin, The American People in the Twentieth Century, 1954 • ... it is severely purged of those autobiographical elements often germane to first novels —Francine Du Plessix Gray, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 15 July 1979 Less often, purge is found with from, and here the object may name either what is removed or the environment from which it is removed: • Pure economics, purged from the nationalistic virus, would work for free trade and peace —Albert Gué-rard, Education of a Humanist, 1949 • ... religious dogmas were purged from public education —Rexford G. Tugwell, Center Mag., January/ February 1973 • The players themselves have had a spring in Florida or Arizona to purge the talk of tax shelters from their conversations —Daniel Okrent, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 3 May 1981 Purge is sometimes used with by to show means: • ... he (Antony) purged his levies by executing a number of soldiers whose loyalty he distrusted — John Buchan, Augustus, 1937 • ... he was sentenced to jail for refusing to hand over certain spending records... but later purged the sentence by handing over the documents —Stephen J. Sansweet, Wall Street Jour., 28 Oct. 1976 |
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