| 单词 | happy thought | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy thought  b.  Of an action, speech, etc.: pleasantly appropriate to the occasion or circumstances; felicitous, apt. Frequently in  happy thought. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > 			[adjective]		 > apt or apposite happya1400 germanea1525 conferent?1541 well-applieda1586 nicking1598 apt1600 punctual1609 apposite1621 collineant1638 pat1647 apropos1691 felicitous1789 treffend1850 bang on1936 a1400						 (a1325)						    Cursor Mundi 		(Fairf. 14)	 l. 4677  				Þorou his awen happy [Vesp. scel-wis, Gött. witti] rede. he filled wiþ wine baþ quyte and rede. 1567    W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xx. f. 140  				Hauing done Saladine to vnderstand his happy repaire home to his Countrey,..[he] liued with his wife afterwardes many prosperous yeres. 1598    W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1  v. iv. 155  				If a lie may do thee grace, Ile guild it with the happiest termes I  haue.       View more context for this quotation a1616    W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 		(1623)	  iii. iii. 1  				Saint Dennis blesse this happy  Stratageme.       View more context for this quotation 1662    E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ  i. i. §8  				The happy use the Primitive learned Christians made of all those passages. 1779    W. Cowper Let. 21 Sept. 		(1979)	 I. 304  				The Situation is happy, the Gardens elegantly disposed. 1781    R. B. Sheridan Critic  ii. i  				A most happy thought. 1799    I. D'Israeli Lovers  ii. in  Romances 310  				They glided on the river with a happy audacity. 1862    J. S. Mill Utilitarianism 84  				This happy thought was considered to get rid of the whole difficulty. 1879    J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 391  				No comparison could be more misleading or less happy. 1915    J. Turner Let. 30 May in  C. Warren Somewhere in France 		(2019)	 14  				It is a happy thought that a man can only peg out or be wiped out once. 1926    Rep. Proc. Ann. Meeting 		(Alabama State Bar Assoc.)	 29  				Making a very happy reply, the lawyer said, ‘By falsely and fraudulently pretending, if your Honor please, that the court was with me, when indeed it was not.’ (Laughter). 1991    C. B. Boyer  & U. C. Merzbach Hist. Math. 		(ed. 2)	 xv. 288  				Bombelli had the happy thought that the radicals themselves might be related in much the way that the radicands are related. < as lemmas  | 
	
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