单词 | to be herself |
释义 | > as lemmasto be herself 5. Her true, natural, or normal self; her personality. to be herself: to be in her normal condition of mind and body, to be in full possession of her faculties: see self pron., adj., n., and adv. ΚΠ 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 1 Men did more earnestly..seke Vertu for hir selfe. 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence iv. ii. sig. I Being her selfe then She must exceede his praise. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 378 The more she looks, the more her fears increase At nearer sight; and she's herself the less. 1845 Littell's Living Age 27 Sept. 593/2 My wife was for weeks worse than dead, and never has been, and never will be herself again. 1908 M. Moore Let. 17 May in Sel. Lett. (1997) 48 Peggy was herself all over, self-possessed and whimsical, and clear and lazy in her speech, acting absolutely not an atom. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 208 She took pleasure in being herself, in being as before, not making a difference. 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) xxi. 219 Sarah wasn't herself. She was taken over by hopelessness. < as lemmas |
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