| 单词 | likes and dislikes |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslikes and dislikes 3. A feeling of regard, preference, or affection for something or someone; a predilection. Chiefly in plural, esp. in likes and dislikes. Also as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > particular liking or partiality partiality?a1439 respect1528 respecting1574 like1612 peculiarity1687 feeling1750 softness1873 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. x. i. 891/2 It was controuersed what forraine princes shold be made priuy to these their purposes; for..to assay their likes or dislikes, would proue dangerous. 1669 R. Allestree 18 Serm. v. 83 The Spirit and Flesh of Man by their so strait alliance and perpetual converse, may grow to have the same likes and dislikes. ?1735 B. Godfrey Miscellanea vere Utilia iii. 132 He has his likes and dislikes as well as we. 1775 J. Trusler Chesterfield's Princ. Politeness 14 Their little wants and whims, their likes and dislikes, and even their impertinences, are particularly attended to and flattered. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 495/2 She used to say, ‘It was not her likes, but her husband's, or she'd have had me back.’ 1889 F. M. Crawford Greifenstein III. xxii. 41 I do not care a straw for his like or dislike. 1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite i. 55 At that she'd unshrivelled like a weed in the rain, peeking and chittering in your bedroom chair all about herself and her life and her likes. 1965 T. Nelson Torture of Mothers i. 8 The police don't have no like for us. 2005 Fortune Apr. 84/1 The old ones, ah! We knew their foibles, their likes and dislikes. < as lemmas |
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