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PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
Autor: | Marcio Osorio |
E-mail: | rec165701@yahoo.com.br |
Data: | 21/FEV/2006 12:58 AM |
Assunto: | Care for = look after? |
Mensagem: |
In a sense, anyone whose safety or well-being you have always or long seen to might as well state that you have always or long "cared for" him or her. care for = to have a liking, fondness, or taste <never cared for a human creature before --Margaret Deland> <doesn't care for ice cream> : have regard or respect <I cared for what he had to say --Edna S.V.Millay> [Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged on CD] Question: Can one use the PV "care for" and the PV "look after" interchangeably? Where do their senses overlap? look after 3 : to attend to : take care of : see to the safety or well-being of : TEND <sent to ... look after his interests --G.C.Sellery> <somebody ... who looked after the children --Eden Phillpotts> <I daresay you can look after yourself --Andrew Young> |