| 单词 | not one's place |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot one's place b. to know (also keep) one's place: to behave in a manner appropriate to one's situation, social status, etc. not one's place: outside one's duties or customary rights. to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place: to deflate or humiliate a person regarded as being presumptuous; to remind a person of his or her inferior status. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > behave well [verb (intransitive)] > know how to behave to can one's goodc1405 to know (also keep) one's placea1500 society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > improperly [phrase] > by allowance, not by right > outside one's customary rights not one's place1867 the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] threac897 threapc897 begripea1000 threata1000 castea1200 chaste?c1225 takec1275 blame1297 chastya1300 sniba1300 withnima1315 undernima1325 rebukec1330 snuba1340 withtakea1340 reprovec1350 chastisea1375 arate1377 challenge1377 undertake1377 reprehenda1382 repreync1390 runta1398 snapea1400 underfoc1400 to call to account1434 to put downc1440 snebc1440 uptakec1440 correptc1449 reformc1450 reprise?c1450 to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450 control1451 redarguec1475 berisp1481 to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522 checkc1530 admonish1541 nip1548 twig?1550 impreve1552 lesson1555 to take down1562 to haul (a person) over the coals1565 increpate1570 touch1570 school1573 to gather up1577 task1580 redarguate?1590 expostulate1592 tutor1599 sauce1601 snip1601 sneap1611 to take in tax1635 to sharp up1647 round1653 threapen1671 reprimand1681 to take to task1682 document1690 chapter1693 repulse1746 twink1747 to speak to ——1753 haul1795 to pull up1799 carpet1840 rig1841 to talk to1860 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 rawhide1895 to tell off1897 to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900 to get on ——1904 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 strafe1915 tick1915 woodshed1935 to slap (a person) down1938 sort1941 bind1942 bottle1946 mat1948 ream1950 zap1961 elder1967 a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 68 (MED) She as an officere of a Prynce of ordinaunce..kepte hir place [Fr. garda son ranc] and toke vpon hir withowt envy or pryde the office for to speke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 52 I knowe my place, as I would they should doe theirs. View more context for this quotation 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xi. 18 It does not become your poor Servant..and I hope I shall always know my Place. 1778 F. Burney Let. 3 Sept. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. Fanny Burney (1994) 13 The subject..was The Respect due from the lower Class of the people. ‘I know my place, said Lady Ladd, & I always take it.’ 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. x. 272 Hickson must keep his place. What he was paid for, was doing the talking to the electors, not paying attention to the ladies in their families. 1867 All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 12 Dec. 3/1 It is not my place, ma'am, to tell names to visitors. a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) vi. 176 ‘Do you call that manners?’ she said; or, ‘I soon put him in his place.’ 1908 A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale i. vi. 108 She ought to have put Mr. Povey into his place... Mr. Povey ought to have been ruined for ever in her esteem. 1937 D. Teilhet & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders vi. 104 Not that I'm complaining. Dear me, no. I know my place. 1955 N. Shute Requiem for Wren (1956) 21 I never had much to do with her outside; she kept her place you know. 1973 R. Stout Please pass Guilt (1974) xi. 109 On the phone you stiff-armed me. You put me in my place. 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 28 My mother took the crooked walk too, I'm told, and I'm sure my Abuelita has her own story, but it's not my place to ask. < as lemmas |
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