| 单词 | a person's business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa person's business P27. a person's business: work to be done or matters to be attended to in a person's service, or on his or her behalf. Now chiefly archaic and historical. ΚΠ 1503 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 101 For his costes lyeng in London aboutes the Quenes matiers and busynesses. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke ii. 49 Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ? View more context for this quotation 1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 13 (note) To preside..over that consequential Branch of the King's Business. 1801 tr. ‘C. F. Damberger’ Trav. through Interior Afr. xii. 433 Some Moors, who, supposing me to be upon the king's business, made no attempt to detain me. 1919 G. R. Brown Beyond Sunset x. 190 His Majesty's business, methinks, rests more seriously upon his courtiers than upon himself. 2002 K. Whitaker Mad Madge (2003) ix. 168 The marquess of Ormonde—a courtier close to Charles II who often passed through Antwerp on his master's business. < as lemmas |
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