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单词 to do right
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to do (a person) right
(a) to do (a person) right.
(i) to treat (a person) justly or fairly; to act dutifully towards. In Old English also †to do right with (a person).In modern use right may sometimes be interpreted as an adverb.
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OE Agreement between Abp. Æðelnoð & Toki (Sawyer 1464) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 154 Se arcebiscop..sæde þæt he riht wið hine gedon hæfde þæt he sylf him for ðam cwyde secgean wolde.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6258 Ȝiff he doþ þe laȝhe. & rihht Þa wurrþ he þær þin broþerr.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1256 Heo was swa swiðe wel bi-þouht, þat ælche monne heo dude riht [c1300 Otho riþt].
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. ii. 3 Come fast before the Juge, and he shal do the ryght.
a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women i. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 89 What ableness have you to do her right then In maintenance fitting her birth and vertues?
1787 ‘Polly Pindar’ Mousiad i. (title page) Let me see wherein My Pen hath wrong'd him: if it do him Right, Then he hath wrong'd himself.
1842 R. Browning Give a Rouse in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics ii. i King Charles, and who'll do him right now?
1879 H. N. Brown Sunday Stories xiv. 180 He did not rebel against these misfortunes which he could not cure, but submitted quietly to all his afflictions, believing that God would do him right in the end.
1919 H. Whitehead Business Career Peter Flint xv. 285 At this Henry gave me a card to a firm of furniture dealers and said if I gave it to them they would do me right.
1973 Jet 15 Mar. 50/2 I'll play all right but I just want that man to do me right.
1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iv. ii. 358 ‘Motherfucker better do me right,’ she said to a dark-haired girl.
(ii) to ensure that (a guest, etc.) has a full drink (also to do right). Cf. reason n.1 7b. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)]
birleOE
drenchc1000
shenchOE
adrenchc1275
to drink to1297
tap1401
skinkc1405
propinec1450
brince?1567
liquor1575
to do right1600
dram1770
butler1826
jerk1868
to set up1880
drink1883
bartend1948
to break out1962
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 73 Why now you haue done me right . View more context for this quotation
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles v. i Fill's a fresh pottle, by this light, Sir Knight, You shall do right.
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. iii. sig. E3v These Glasses containe nothing; doe me right, As e're you hope for liberty.
1889 J. G. Austin Standish of Standish xviii. 202 Both beer and strong waters were freely set out upon the cabin table, nor did even the Elder refuse to do him right in a parting glass of Nantz.]
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to do right
(ii) to ensure that (a guest, etc.) has a full drink (also to do right). Cf. reason n.1 7b. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)]
birleOE
drenchc1000
shenchOE
adrenchc1275
to drink to1297
tap1401
skinkc1405
propinec1450
brince?1567
liquor1575
to do right1600
dram1770
butler1826
jerk1868
to set up1880
drink1883
bartend1948
to break out1962
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 73 Why now you haue done me right . View more context for this quotation
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles v. i Fill's a fresh pottle, by this light, Sir Knight, You shall do right.
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man ii. iii. sig. E3v These Glasses containe nothing; doe me right, As e're you hope for liberty.
1889 J. G. Austin Standish of Standish xviii. 202 Both beer and strong waters were freely set out upon the cabin table, nor did even the Elder refuse to do him right in a parting glass of Nantz.]
extracted from rightn.
to do right
(b) to do right: to do what is correct, just, or honourable; to act rightly.
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a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 29167 Þam aw here to do right.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xxii. f. lxix Yf thou er this tyme haddest done right.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xviii. 25 Shall not the Iudge of all the earth doe right ? View more context for this quotation
1619 D. Calderwood Solution Dr. Resolutus i. 6 Our vulgar translators have done right in expressing Christs gesture by the word, sitting.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xii. 76 It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
1792 E. Burke Let. 6 Nov. (1968) VII. 273 We must do right, and do it simply and Vigorously and trust to Providence to the rest.
1810 M. Brunton Self-control II. xvii. 67 ‘Oh no! no!’ cried Laura, ‘I must leave you while yet I have the power to do right.’
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. ii. 22 Why should I be so afraid of not doing right? As if it mattered to the world whether I do right or wrong!
1970 N. Bawden Birds on Trees Prol. 1 ‘I hope we've done right,’ Clara Tilney said.
2002 A. A. Kass Perfect Gift v. vi. 384 ‘And yet have I done right? Have I done right?’ said the bishop, striding up and down the chamber.
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