单词 | to enter a person's head |
释义 | > as lemmasto enter a person's head (also mind) P5. to enter into (also †in) a person's head (also mind), (later more typically) to enter a person's head (also mind): (of a thought, idea, etc.) to occur to a person, to cross a person's mind. Chiefly in negative contexts. Cf. senses 15a(b), 15d(b). ΚΠ 1595 T. Bedingfield tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. vi. 163 Gherardo..protested, that neuer any disloiall thought had entred his minde. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico iii. 71 It never entered into his mind..to impose the Spanish Inquisition upon the Low-countreys. 1684 J. Stewart Let. in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 220 Nor nefer lowt the thoughts of it entr in may mind. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 284. ⁋1 When this Humour enters into the Head of a Female. 1766 G. Keith Let. 29 Apr. in D. Hume Lett. (1932) II. 365 The Donquixotisme you mention never entered my head. 1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 201 It never enters his head to lie under the walnut-tree here. 1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. xv. 121 The idea that Lady Mason was guilty had never entered her head. 1956 A. Valentine Trial Balance ii. xii. 245 It did not enter his mind that friendships so casual and easily renewable could be had only with people like himself. 1997 Pop. Sci. Oct. 37 (advt.) It's only normal that thoughts of such eyeball-flattening performance would enter into the mind of the street rider. 2001 Guardian 2 Jan. 9 Cynics may suggest that he can only draw naked people ‘at it’. The thought never entered my head. < as lemmas |
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