单词 | to come to one's right mind |
释义 | > as lemmasto come to one's right mind b. To think or behave reasonably following a period of foolishness, irrationality, or madness; to recover from a fit, outburst, or state marked by overpowering emotion or excitement. Also to come to one's right mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > be calm [phrase] > compose or make calm to set at resta1413 to come to one's senses (or oneself)c1450 c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies i. vi, in Anglia (1885) 8 139 (MED) Whanne she comen to hirselfe ageyne as after a moystnesse of mynde..if she myghte perceyue þat she hadde excedid neuer so litil, she shroue hir wiþ a wondirful contricyone of herte. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke xv. D Then he came to him selfe [1526 remembred hym silfe] and sayde, how many hyred seruantes at my fathers, have breed ynough, & I dye for honger. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles ii. f. xixv Nabuchodonosor..was become madde & woodde... Daniel prayed God for him, and he was restored: afterward comminge to hys ryght mynde agayn from hys wyckednesse. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Gg.iiiiv I woulde sooner haue beleaued he had bine continent, if he had declared any token to haue bine come to his right senses again, and in that case haue vsed continencie. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxi. 410 So long as our pulse panted, and we feele any concitation, so long remit we the partie: And things will seeme farre otherwise vnto vs, if we once come to our senses againe, and shall better bethinke vs. a1708 W. Beveridge Nature & Necessity Restitution (1711) 9 Zaccheus..being come to himself as soon as Christ was come into his House. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. ii. 173 But at last having vented the first Torrent of Passion, he came a little to himself . View more context for this quotation 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. vi. 128 He came a little to his senses, (for love is a phrenzy), and began to behave like a common man. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times xiii. 99 She just mutters and stares... When she comes to her right mind once more, I shall have done what I can. 1883 W. Black Yolande III. vii. 129 The people..may come to their senses. 1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain vii. 399 It was unstoppable, unless Chet came to himself, got a decent job up in Idaho. 1991 A. Campbell Sidewinder i. 2 I came to my senses and realised that Tia wasn't a reincarnation of my mother at all, but only a lookalike. 2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 4 He started to feel as if..a voice in his head was telling him to get a knife from the kitchen and hurt Dawn. After he came to himself he said he realised he had done something awful. < as lemmas |
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