词性：介词

作为介词，与其他结构构成短语，在句子中起状语、定语、表语或复合宾语的作用。

1）表示和、同、与
This has futher strengthened our ties with them。

2）用、以
Knowledge begins with practice

3）表示原因
The poor woman was trembling with fear
His hands were rough with work

4）带有
These apartment houses are for workers with families。
China is a country with a population of over a billion。

5）引起状语，说明方式
He went home with a heavy heart。
Everybody is working with great enthusiasm

6）和一复合结构构成短语，用做状语，说明方式
He was sitting in a chair with his hands folded。
The day was bright， with a fresh breeze blowing。
with the matter settled， he went home。

7）就。。。来说
Everything was going well with us

8）随着
with the battle of Waterloo， Napoleon‘s rule in Europe was ended。

9）尽管
with all his shortcoming， he was a conscientious worker。

10）引起短语做表语
Diana is with the children。

以下为在OG中所出现过的with的用法：

19. In addition to having more protein -than wheat does, the protein in rice is higher quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet.

25. The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous interest whenever they were put on show.

104. The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was largely vegetarian--vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cakes, with meat as a rarity.

113. Visitors to the park have often looked up into the leafy canopy and saw monkeys sleeping on the branches. seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging.

119. Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of more than $100 billion a year.
(C)significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, already with business costs of
In C, already with business costs of... is awkward and unclear, failing to specify that those prior effects generate the cost

114、 From the bark of the paper birch tree the Menomini crafted a canoe about twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar, which could carry four persons or eight hundred pounds of baggage so light that a person could easily portage it around impeding rapids.

192. Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the four thousand Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventeenth-century French to which has been added English. Spanish. and Italian words.
(D)with English, Spanish, and Italian words having been added to it
D offers an awkward adverbial construction, which cannot be used to modify nouns.

158. With only 5 percent of the world's population, United States citizens consume 28 percent of its nonrenewable resources, drive more than one-third of its automobiles, and use 21 times more water per capita than Europeans do.
With in choice A confusingly suggest that United States citizens somehow possess, rather than constitute, 5 percent of the world's population.

205. The peaks of a mountain range, acting like rocks in a streambed, produce ripples in the air flowing over them; the resulting flow pattern, with crests and troughs that remain stationary although the air that forms them is moving rapidly, is known as "standing waves."

212. The Baldrick Manufacturing Company has for several years followed a policy aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving the efficiency of its distribution system.
(E)with the aim to decrease operating costs and to improve
In E，with the aim... improve can easily be construed as referring to the Baldrick Manufacturing Company and so does not refer unequivocally to policy.

198、Although Napoleon's army entered Russia with far more supplies than they had for any previous campaigncampaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

200. Certain pesticides can become ineffective if used repeatedly in the same place: one reason is suggested by the finding that there are much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in soils that are free of such chemicals。