■ influence

通常是个名词，但是也可以是个及物动词，此时它的直接宾语可以是个“兼语”，即充当 influence 的宾语，同时又是后面 to inf. 的主语。

• An effective story might also have been made by bringing him into contact with some old painter whom the pressure of want or the desire for commercial success had made false to the genius of his youth, and who, seeing in Strickland the possibilities which himself had wasted, influenced him to forsake all and follow the divine tyranny of art. (Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, Chapter XLIII)也可以写出一个得心应手的故事，办法就是：安排他邂逅某个昔日由于经不住谋生的压力，或是由于发财致富心切而把自己大好青春的才华埋没掉的老画家，这个老人在斯特立克兰身上看到了自己荒废掉的才能，就对他施加影响，使得他舍弃一切，一任神圣的艺术所驱使。