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单词 near one's heart
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near (also nearest) (to) one's heart
b. Similarly in expressions such as near (also nearest) (to) one's heart, to hold to one's heart, etc., in which fond regard or great affection for a person or thing (cf. sense A. 10) rather than actual physical proximity is meant.
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1491 Quattuor Serm. sig. Aviiv, in Mirk's Festialis (Caxton) First thou shalte loue god wyth al thi hert, that noo thyng be nerer thy hert thenne god.
1609 Bp. J. Hall Paraphr. Song of Songs i. 10 in Salomons Diuine Arts His loue, laid close vnto my heart, doth still giue me continual & vnspeakable refreshings.
1664 J. Carstaires Let. 21 June in W. Ferrie Notices of Life J. Carstaires (1843) 122 I know their Christian..educatione lyeth as near your heart as myne.
1694 G. Stanhope tr. Simplicius Comm. Epictetus' Morals xxxvii. 340 When he hath found such another as himself, he must hold him close to his Heart, as his Dearer and Better Half.
1706 N. Rowe Ulysses i. i. 4 He still has held him In more especial Nearness to his Heart.
1773 J. Langhorne Orig. Veil 9 In Him, who holds his country to his heart.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. ii. 60 He ventured to renew the subject nearest his heart.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists ii. 193 Cuddling to his heart the compliment which his literary majesty had paid him.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. Pref. 28 Important for the cause which was nearest to his heart.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 5 June 14/7 The Richmonder who held the memories of the sixties close to his heart always called it [sc. the Civil War] the War Between the States.
1952 C. Mackenzie Rival Monster xvi. 213 After lunch Toker found an opportunity to talk to Ian Carmichael on a subject near to his heart.
1972 Jrnl. News (Hamilton, Ohio) 19 Feb. 11/1 The country's relationship with Hughes is almost mystical: we ever hold him to our hearts.
1994 Times 18 May 2/3 He does this entirely without briefing notes, as though the matter were so close to his heart as to need no cribsheet.
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