| 单词 | to be on the same wavelength |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be on the same wavelength 2. figurative with allusion to radio reception, implying (esp. mutual) understanding; esp. in to be on the same wavelength (as someone else), to understand each other. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] > understanding, comprehension knowing1340 taking1395 apprehending1398 feela1400 conceitc1405 perceitc1460 comprehension?15.. intellection?1526 apprension1589 making-outa1601 reception1612 uptaking1614 perceivancy1649 comprehending1668 recognition1749 prehension1836 prension1837 wavelength1925 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [phrase] > share understanding to speak (also talk) someone's (also the same) language1893 to be on the same wavelength1964 1925 N. Venner Imperfect Impostor i. 11 No. You're on the wrong wave length! Nothing doing. 1927 Amer. Speech 2 276/2 Have one's wave length, know one's sentiments. 1929 A. E. Housman Let. 16 Feb. (1971) i. 276 Only the archangel Raphael could recite my poetry properly, but..you would do it quite nicely, and I shall try not to set up interfering wave~lengths. a1936 R. Kipling Let. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) xx. 509 Every man has to work out his creed according to his own wave-length, and the hope is that the Great Receiving Station is tuned to take all wave-lengths. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept. 617/3 She finally comes to believe that she is the only person in Riverville who was ‘born civilized’ and that nobody else there is of her own ‘wavelength’. 1947 T. S. Eliot Milton 12 It is only in the period that the wave-length of Milton's verse is to be found. 1959 Economist 6 June 919/2 Editors and publishers..have to..find the wave~length of their..readers. 1964 H. Waldock in Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co. Case (Internat. Court of Justice) II. 112 I do not think that it would assist the Court if I were to deal with every contention advanced by our opponents in their Observations and Conclusions; for on some points we are really not on the same wave~length. 1976 Ld. Home Way Wind Blows ii. 27 In September A. W. Whitworth took over, and I like to think we were soon on each other's wave-length. 1983 D. Dunnett Dolly & Bird of Paradise xiii. 168 We weren't on the same wavelength really... He was clever. And my thoughts are easy to read. < as lemmas |
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