| 单词 | not to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to —— (c) colloquial. not to ——: do not ——. Webster's Dict. Eng. Usage (1989) 670–1 noted the uncommonness of the phrase not to worry in American English, and its disapproval by some commentators, but U.S. examples are not uncommon from the later 1980s onwards.In early use preceded by please (see please v. 6d). ΚΠ 1790 T. Holcroft German Hotel ii. 17 Rum. So early! Will. In less than an hour; make haste. Rum. Please not to be in a hurry. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxvii. 258 And he objects to a secretary: please not to mention that again. 1958 Daily Mail 24 July 6/5 Not to worry. By the time he..had finished with me..I'd be doing long division. 1965 L. Meynell Double Fault i. iii. 31 ‘We'll send it for you.’ ‘Not to bother. I'm going down to the country this evening.’ 1995 G. Drabinsky Closer to Sun xviii. 363 Vineberg said, ‘Not to worry. It's a lead-pipe cinch.’ < as lemmas |
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