| 单词 | inform |
| 释义 | in·form I. transitive verb 1. obsolete a. b. 2. a. < to what extent can the practice of science inform, render more significant the objects of common sense — Gail Kennedy > < a piety … quietly informing the outlook of men in politics as elsewhere — W.L.Miller > b. < eternal objects inform actual occasions with hierarchic patterns — A.N.Whitehead > < everything that is made from without and by dead rules, and does not spring from within through some spirit informing it — Oscar Wilde > c. < these poems are informed with sincerity — Richard Eberhart > < sentimental, Protestant ethos that has always informed his writing — L.A.Fiedler > 3. obsolete 4. obsolete < if old respect hither hath informed your younger feet — John Milton > 5. obsolete 6. < accused shall enjoy the right … to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation — U.S. Constitution > < obligation as a citizen is to inform himself … regarding the controversial issues — Clifford Houston > < program of informing the rest of the world about our way of life — H.H.Davis > intransitive verb 1. < in theory news informs while advertising sells — Banking > 2. < I shall not inform upon you — Oscar Wilde > Synonyms: < to inform the students there would be no classes on Saturday > < kept the staff informed of Chinese public opinion concerning the American military action there — Current Biography > acquaint usually lays stress upon less centrally significant matter than inform does or suggests a process of introducing to or familiarizing with rather than informing of < these writings were of the nature of travel books, and served … to acquain the world with a new country — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < acquainting students with political practices — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > To apprise someone of something is to communicate something usually of interest or importance to him < this church, so I was then apprised, was founded by St. James the Less — T.G.Henderson > < Tristram's cutting the hazel and writing upon it with his knife in order to apprise the queen of his presence — Grace Frank > < to touch him on the sleeve and apprise him that I was there — Mary Austin > To advise someone of something is to inform him of something that may make a significant difference to him in an action, policy, or plan; it often suggests a forewarning or counseling < consulted the wine card and advised me that the wine I had chosen had no special merit — R.M.Lovett > < I advised him strongly of the danger of switching professions without acquiring new professional qualifications — R.G.G.Price > To notify is to send a notice or make a usually formal communication generally about something requiring or worthy of attention < the court clerk notified the witnesses when to appear > < notify a man of his acceptance in a club > To advertise, rare in current use in this sense, is to inform or notify by way of warning < the translators, good Protestants, were careful to advertise the reader that what they offered was Le Clerc's Moreri — Times Literary Supplement > II. 1. obsolete 2. obsolete |
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