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单词 to come to one's senses
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to come to one's senses (or oneself)
2. intransitive. to come to one's senses (or oneself).
a. To recover consciousness; to become conscious again after sleep, a swoon, etc. Cf. to come to 4 at Phrasal verbs 1, to come to one's memory at memory n. Phrases 3b.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 Ac þanne he heþ y-slepe and comþ to him-zelue.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 122 She felle doun in a swoune... And whan the duchesse was come agen to herselfe.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 520 She fell downe amazed: and beyng come to hir selfe agayne, sayde vnto them, [etc.].
1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine x. sig. C2v By this time, the Prouost [dazeled by the fury of Blanchardines stroke] came to his sences.
1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 16 The hurt person comming to his senses, cleared me, telling how it came, and by whom.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 7 Feb. (1974) VIII. 48 He was fallen down all along upon the ground, dead... He did presently come to himself.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 337 When she was come to her self enough to talk again.
1758 E. Kimber Life Capt. Neville Frowde iii. 140 Thus he continued for near a Day and a half, when, by some Administrations of our excellent Surgeon, he came to himself.
1805 M. Edgeworth Lottery iii. in Pop. Tales (ed. 2) II. 61 The surgeon arrived: he set her leg, and, during this operation, she came to her senses.
1890 S. R. Gardiner in Dict. National Biogr. XXII. 319/1 At the news of the execution of Charles I he [sc. Montrose] fainted, and when he came to himself swore to avenge him.
1921 Open Road Mar. 19/2 The pain..had made me faint. When I came to my senses again I was in pitch darkness lying flat on my back.
1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning i. 19 I came to myself and the darkened bedroom... Bewildered, I called my husband and asked him how long I'd been asleep.
2012 Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Rec. (Nexis) 16 Oct. The woman..had apparently fallen, hitting her head. When she came to herself, she called the police and reported the robbery.
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.
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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.
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