单词 | in good spirits |
释义 | > as lemmasin good spirits (a) Of a person's health, mood, or disposition: in excellent, sound, or robust condition; spec. (a) (of a person's courage, spirit, etc.) undaunted, undismayed; (b) (of a person's morale) not depressed or low. Frequently in in good health, in good heart, in good spirits, etc.good cheer: see cheer n.1 Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > specifically of state of spirits or mind goodOE in heart1579 mooth1782 OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §19. 236 Ða bæd ic þa fyrde hwæþre þæt hie hæfdon god ellen þara þinga þe us on becwomon. OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) iv. 248 Wið earena sare, genim foxes gelynde gemylted, drype on þa earan, him cymð god hæl [L. mire sanat]. c1330 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Auch.) (1952) l. 45 (MED) King Alisaunder, þei him were wo, He tok him gode hert to. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. i. 168 A membre þat is in good hele. c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1908) 439 God sent hem good hele and welfare and Scomfiture of all her enemyes. a1535 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 80/1 Ye would recken your belly not in good quart. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 276 I hearing this noyse, exhorted them to have good hearts. 1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile f. 66v He..bad him be of good courage, and shake off that dismaiment. 1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes 953 He ouercommeth this feare, and is in good heart. 1698 J. Floyer Treat. Asthma iii. 123 The sign of the Breeding of a Tuberculum, is when any one in good Health begins to breath short, and as that encreases a Stertor is observ'd in Breathing. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 96. ⁋2 Tom, Tom have a good Heart. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. i. 13 Lady Margaret herself, exhilarated by a notion of having outwitted her husband, was in unusual good spirits, and almost in good humour. 1792 W. Cowper Let. 29 July (1984) IV. 161 Mary..is in pretty good plight this morning, having slept well. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 119 The health of the crews had..been..wonderfully good. 1865 J. W. Carlyle Let. Feb. in Lett. & Memorials (1894) III. 244 I don't feel in such good heart about the Devonshire visit as I did. 1926 A. Conan Doyle Land of Mist xiv. 244 I must go, for I have much to do... But be of good heart, young man. 1985 M. Palin Diary 6 Sept. in Halfway to Hollywood (2009) 376 Sleep well and wake in good spirits to a bright, cloudless sky. 2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man ix. 63 She is prepared, if she can, and if he will permit it, to transmit to him through her fingertips a fair quantum of her own ruddy good health. < as lemmas |
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