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单词 at heart
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at heart
(a) at heart.
(i) In one's inmost thoughts or feelings; in one's true character or disposition; inwardly, secretly; at bottom, at the very core.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > [adverb]
inwardc950
in (in early use also on) one's heartOE
inwardlya1000
withinc1000
inlyOE
inwardsa1250
intellectuallya1398
at heartc1400
spiritally1502
internally1567
interiorly1609
soul-like1839
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > seat of the emotions > [phrase]
at heartc1400
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 467 (MED) Þaȝ Arþer..at hert hade wonder, He let no semblaunt be sene.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1632 For he wole haue þe more here grief at herte By cause, lo, þat she a lady ys.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxv. 427 They keepe a howling with most ostentation, who are lesse sorrowfull at heart.
a1678 T. Gale Christ's Tears for Jerusalems Unbelief & Ruine (1679) ii. viii. 208 He may sometimes conforme to the Laws of Christ in appearance; but doth he not stil hate them at heart?
1735 A. Pope Of Char. of Women 12 But every Woman is, at heart, a Rake.
1790 Amer. Museum Sept. 106/1 A few of his jewels, which Shaw Abbas, who was at heart his friend, had privately allowed him.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 222 It was certain that the King at heart preferred the Churchmen to the Puritans.
1897 Spectator 4 Dec. 829/1 There is small doubt that all classes of the natives [of India] are at heart profoundly Anti-Western.
1939 W. Saroyan Peace it's Wonderful 22 Jimmy Valentine, although once a safe-cracker, was at heart a man of great nobility.
1960 Times 4 Mar. 13/6 The Afrikaner, being at heart a generous and very much a domestic-minded person.
2000 Z. Smith White Teeth (2001) i. 20 Underneath the dakshiki he was at heart a good middle-class boy, instilled with respect for his elders.
(ii) So as to constitute an object in which one is deeply interested and towards which one is supportive or favourably disposed. Chiefly in to have at heart.
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the mind > emotion > love > [verb (transitive)] > be strongly attached to (a thing)
loveOE
to have at heart1680
1680 W. Temple Ess. Orig. & Nature of Govt. in Miscellanea 73 Religion, Liberty, Honour, Revenge, or Necessity; which make every Soldier have the quarrel as much at heart as their Leaders.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 20. ⁋1 The Correction of Impudence is what I have very much at Heart.
1795 J. J. C. Timaeus tr. F. Schiller Cabal & Love i. vi. 13 I have always your welfare at heart.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. v. 223 The Romans had no object more at heart than to obtain the possession of this key to Gaul.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 198 A matter which we have very much at heart.
1900 R. H. Barbour For Honor of School 70 We have your welfare at heart, my boy, and we going to see that you don't act silly and get put on probation.
1929 Hope (Arkansas) Star 7 Aug. 5/1 (advt.) Your best interests are at heart upon the occasion of this, the Gala Day of all the year for Hope.
1978 M. S. Peck Road Less Travelled ii. 99 All of us have desires to..be cared for by persons stronger than us who have our interests truly at heart.
2008 Guardian 3 May (Travel section) 3/4 Tour operators who include community-based tourism in their brochures should have the communities at heart.
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