| 单词 | to make history |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make history b. to make history: to influence or guide the course of history; to do something spectacular or worthy of remembrance. Cf. history-maker n., history-making adj. and n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > act or do [verb (intransitive)] > do something worthy of remembrance to make history1830 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (intransitive)] > be worthy of notice to have some show1556 figure1749 to make history1830 1830 Museum of Foreign Lit. Feb. 147/1 Bourrienne was aware that he and his master were making history; so that he did not, like so many unconscious actors in great scenes, let the opportunities pass without taking accurate note of all that came under his notice. 1862 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 Mar. 139/1 People engaged in public transactions are sometimes said to be making history, because they occasionally perform actions to which history condescends to impart perpetuity. 1890 O. Wilde in 19th Century July 137 Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xx. 311 We shall have a chance of making history over this, old man. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 208 I had been ready to..publish..at my own expense, and try to make a kind of publishing history. 2006 Daily Tel. 5 July 3/5 (heading) Baroness Hayman makes history as first Lord Speaker. < as lemmas |
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