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单词 to make it one's practice
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to make it one's (also a) practice
b. to make it one's (also a) practice: to determine to do habitually or as a rule; = to make a practice of at Phrases 3c.
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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xv. 44 Tamberlaine made it his practice, to reade often the Heroike deeds, of his own Progenitors.
1668 J. Hancock Brooks' String of Pearls (Notice at end) Some dishonest Booksellers, called Land-Pirats, who make it their practise to steal Impressions of other mens Copies.
1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 55 I had always made it a practice whenever an opportunity occurred of obtaining any information of our country,..to commit it to writing.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. xii. 253 I am not one of those who..make it a constant practice to disparage the higher orders.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 903/2 He enjoyed the opportunity of daily hearing his discourse, and made it his practice faithfully to commit to writing ‘the excellent things that usually fell from him’.
1988 F. Kaplan Dickens iii. 68 He encouraged her to make it a practice to visit him.
2004 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Jan. 19 I have made it my practice to ignore letters with signatures suffixed by ‘MP’ or ‘MSP’.
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