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单词 to be good enough to
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to be good enough (also so good as) to
c. to be good enough (also so good as) to: used in making a polite or courteous request. Cf. sense A. 15a, to have the goodness to do something at goodness n. Phrases 2. Now formal or somewhat archaic.
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?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. xixv Yf he found me in any errours, that he wolde be so good as to teache me, for I desyred to lerne the veryte.
1652 H. Cogan tr. M. de Scudery Ibrahim ii. iii. 45 He besought her to be so good as to relate to him all that had arrived unto her.
1760 B. Gomez & S. Hart Let. 16 Dec. in J. R. Marcus Early Amer. Jewry (1951) I. iv. 85 You will be good enough to engage a suitable master..to teach our children the Hebrew language.
1796 J. Austen Let. 18 Sept. (1995) 12 My Father will be so good as to fetch home his prodigal Daughter from Town.
1834 Calcutta Christian Observer Nov. 571 Be good enough to send me 40 romanized writing copies for the schools here.
1862 C. Darwin Let. 18 Mar. in Corr. (1997) X. 124 Will you be so good as to attend to separate note about Refereeship.
1925 Amer. Speech 1 36/1 ‘Can the ad lib!’ which means, politely, ‘Will you be good enough to hush!’
1946 C. Bush Case Second Chance viii. 118 You might be so good as to say I rang him on rather urgent business.
1994 G. Trease Bring out Banners (1995) ii. 16 Beg pardon, madam—the purser's compliments, and would you be good enough to come below to his office?
2006 R. Everett Red Carpets & Other Banana Skins iv. 23 First offenders were congenially shown the ropes: ‘If you'd be so good as to bend over that chair, I'm afraid I'm going to give you six.’
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