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单词 it would not be amiss to
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it would not be amiss to ——
2. Of an action, expedient, etc.: inappropriate, out of order, unwarranted; not in keeping with the object in view. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. with anticipatory it (in it would not be amiss to ——, etc.), often as a formula used to assert justification for making a particular observation or statement.
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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 640 Yf the tre be yonge, The clouen stook to graffe is not amys. And wrie hem fest, lest wynd therynto yonge.
c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 403 All th[y]nge hat dew tymes Prayer, fastynge, labour, all thes. Wan tyme ys not kept, þat dede ys amys.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 276 It shall not bee amysse, to clynte, or nayle them faste togyther.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. iii. 47 The better to conceive the Ideas, we receive from Sensation, it may not be amiss for us to consider them.
1766 R. Brookes Art of Angling (new ed.) 92 You may use two Hooks at a Line at a Time, and two Rods is not amiss.
1778 S. Johnson Let. 21 Nov. (1992) III. 144 It is good to speak dubiously about futurity. It is likewise not amiss to hope.
1856 Ld. Tennyson Maud (rev. ed.) xix. viii, in Maud & Other Poems (new ed.) 69 Kind to Maud? That were not amiss.
1905 Trans. Dental Soc. State N.Y. 160/2 I know local treatment is the essential treatment, but would it be amiss to suggest that there is possibly a constitutional cause?
1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 83 It is not amiss to recall that the antennae or feelers of insects..have never been clearly accounted for by the naturalist.
2006 D. Lewin Stud. Music with Text xv. 286 In light of the preceding discussion, it would not be amiss to plunge right into the all-important piano introduction in this case.
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