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单词 to give to believe, know, note, understand
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to give (a person) to believe, know, note, understand
c. to give (a person) to believe, know, note, understand, etc.: to impart to him information that will lead him to believe (etc.). Also in indirect passive.
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?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. R b The whiche giveth us to understande that man is the verie chiefe worke of God.
1586 Queen Elizabeth I in Corresp. Earl Leicester (Camden Soc. 1844) 210 So we think mete the counsel of state be geven to understand.
1586 Earl of Leicester in Corresp. Earl Leicester (Camden Soc. 1844) 246 It is secretly and assuredly giuen me to vnderstand [etc.].
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E4v I..Shal giue the world to note..That Vertue solely is the sum of glorie.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. M iij a He doth moreouer giue vs to vnderstand the number of the Sermons that he translated.
1661 R. L'Estrange State-divinity 44 I am given to understand that [etc.].
1778 J. Laurens in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 170 We have given them to understand that the frigate..is to push out of the Sound.
1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) I. 539 Our report..they may be given to know, cannot be formed without decisive information.
1811 Countess Berkeley Addr. to Peers 19 I met him when he gave me to believe that his intentions were honourable.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 82 Four of the Judges gave him to understand that they could not, on this occasion, serve his purpose.
1875 H. Kingsley No. Seventeen xxii. 167 ‘How did you lie?’ ‘Not at all in words, but I gave him to think that’ [etc.].
1889 M. Caird Wing of Azrael III. xxxvi. 129 Adrienne was given to understand that this..was entirely her doing.
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