| 单词 | i would hate for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI would hate for c. Originally U.S. With for, indirect object, and infinitive: to be very unwilling to see something occur or be done. Often in I would hate for (the specified thing to happen).Cf. earlier uses with simple object and infinitive at sense 2a(a) (e.g. quot. 1847). ΚΠ 1882 Salt Lake Daily Tribune 14 Feb. He was so..courteous to me that I would hate awfully for him to get into trouble. 1894 Shiner (Texas) Gaz. 3 May Our commissioner is a mighty good man, and I would hate for us to loose [sic] him. 1921 Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Jrnl. 19 Jan. 1/7 They..treated me so good. I would hate for them to know what kind of a wife you had. 1979 Sci. Fiction Rev. Jan. 50/1 You hate for this tale to end. 1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) xvi. 212 I'd hate for us to just give everyone who's unhappy a happy pill. 2004 Tampa Tribune (Nexis) 6 Mar. Metro 2 I would hate for my children to see this. < as lemmas |
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