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单词 to bear a brain
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to bear a brain
b. to bear a brain: to be able to think; to remember; to be cautious, thoughtful, or intelligent; (cf. bear v.1 5). Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > have intelligence [verb (intransitive)]
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a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiiiv I counsell you bere a brayne.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 120 Some Potestats..will by fittes [printed firres] beare a braine.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 31 I had then laid wormewood to my dug... My Lord and you were then at Mantua, nay I do beare a braine . View more context for this quotation
a1652 R. Brome City Wit v. sig. Gv, in Five New Playes (1653) O my kind Brother, you have got the rich Widdow; and you have borne a brain Mother.
1693 G. Powell Very Good Wife iv. 29 Bear a Brain Monsieur Dancer, or I may chance shew you a cross Caper.
1763 C. Churchill Ghost iv. 189 The infidels at Court, Who make our City Wits their sport, Shall hail the honours of my reign, And own that Dullman bears a brain.
1773 E. de Franchetti Granny's Predict. 42 O! I do bear a brain, and I warrant, an I should live a thousand year, I should not forget it.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xvi. 341 Eustace, thou bear'st a brain.
1830 J. Boaden Life Mrs. Jordan II. v. 108 To use a phrase of the great author, Kemble, one way, was qualified to act Falstaff,—he did ‘bear a brain’; he understood well what he said.
1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies 38 Justly would whoso bears a brain object ‘Giving is giving, gift claims gift's return.’
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