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单词 me had rather
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me (also him, etc.) had rather
c. In impersonal constructions, as me (also him, etc.) had liefer, me (also him, etc.) had rather: it is preferable to me (him, etc.) that. Obsolete.Apparently by analogy with constructions of the type him were better; cf. note at sense 47a.
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a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 2837 So had hym better [a1425 Bodl. be better, Dulwich Coll. were he better], for hys prowe, For to haue broke þat yche vowe.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 444 Al hadde hir leuere haue had a knaue child.
a1425 (c1300) Archbishop & Nun (Ashm.) in J. Small Eng. Metrical Homilies (1862) 81 (MED) Hir had leuar Goddes wrethe, Than for to haue hir bisschopes lethe.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 3502 Hym hadde lever have ben at home.
1512–13 Syr Degore (de Worde) sig. B.iii Me had leuer than all this kyngdome here..That I were fayre out of this londe.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 190 Me rather had my hart might feele your loue, Then [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
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