| 释义 |
passivizable, a. Gram.|ˈpæsɪˌvaɪzəb(ə)l|
[f. as next + -able.]
Able to undergo passivization; meeting the structural analysis for the passive transformation. So ˌpassivizaˈbility.
1970N. Chomsky in Jacobs & Rosenbaum Readings Eng. Transformational Gram. 203 Passivizability is a property of verbs. 1972A. Makkai Idiom Struct. Eng. 152 The tournure kick the bucket, per se, is not passivizable. 1978Language LIV. 172 Phrases are apt to be passivizable if ‘they perform the same function as single verbs’. |