| 释义 |
postˈpose, v.
[a. F. postposer (1549 in Godef.), f. post- post- A. + poser pose v.1]
trans. To place after or later than (something); = postpone: a. in temporal or serial order. Now usu. Gram.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. x. (1622) 19 Doubtfull..which first to go to: least the other being postposed should take it in disdaine. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 31 We utter our wil be verbes signifying the form of our wil, or postposing the supposit. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. xi. v. §24 The defense of the king's person and authority..in this Covenant is postposed to the ‘privileges of parliament’. 1930T. Sasaki On Lang. R. Bridges' Poetry i. i. 7 Not a single adj. in ‘-able’ or ‘-ible’ is postposed in Bridges. 1962R. Quirk Use of English xiv. 241 To postpose an adjective as in ‘the young man carbuncular’. 1978Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 106 It is obvious that there are similarities..between the rule of extraposition which postposes the string into the heavens in (46 b) and the one which postposes into the clouds in (42 b).
†b. in order of estimation or importance. Obs.
1622Donne Serm. (ed. Alford) V. 102 In postposing the Apocryphal into an inferior place [we] have testimony from the people of God. 1656Hobbes Six Lessons Wks. 1845 VII. 343 Which reputation I have always postposed to the common benefit of the studious.
Hence postˈposed ppl. a.; postˈposing vbl. n.
1927O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. III. i. 19 Postposed adjectives are not in general accord with colloquial English. 1972W. Labov Language in Inner City iv. 143 There are some postposed expressions which seem quite straightforward, even unmarked. 1975Language LI. 815 Passivization..may involve not one but two transformational operations—subject postposing and object preposing. 1978Ibid. LIV. 76 On the other hand, response-stance verbs, and verbs that are not stance verbs at all, do not allow such postposings. |