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Influenced

“Influenced” 描述某人或某事在思想、行为、决策或风格上受到了外部因素的作用,常见结构 be influenced by(受……影响)、highly influenced(深受影响)。

  1. “Her writing was heavily influenced by Latin American poetry.” (她的写作深受拉美诗歌影响。)
  2. “The judge said the witness was not influenced by media reports.” (法官称证人未受媒体报道影响。)
  3. “Social media influenced how teenagers spend their free time.” (社交媒体影响了青少年如何度过空闲时间。)

Influence 来自拉丁语 influere(流入),in-(进入)+ fluere(流动),原义像“某种力量流入并改变状态”。

influence + -ed;名词 influence,形容词 influential,施动者可说 influencer(现代用法)。

艺术、音乐评论中 influenced by 是标准表述;营销与心理学也讨论 peer-influenced behavior(受同伴影响的行为)。中性词,可褒可贬,取决于影响来源。

  • 原形: influence
  • 现在分词: influencing
  • 形容词: influential
  • 固定搭配: “influenced by” (受……影响), “easily influenced” (容易受影响)

想象 influence 像一股流体(flu)流进心里,influenced 就是“已经被流进去改变过了”。

“Raised in two cultures, she was influenced by both her grandmother’s cooking and her classmates’ slang.” (在两种文化中长大,她既受祖母厨艺的影响,也受同学俚语的影响。)