单词 | to leave to oneself |
释义 | > as lemmasto leave to oneself (also itself) P2. to leave to oneself (also itself): to leave (a person or thing) alone or undisturbed; to allow to proceed without help or interference. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > abstain from interfering with to let alonec897 leaveOE to let bec1000 to let bec1175 to let (a person or thing) yworth?c1225 to let (something) standa1400 to let dwella1500 to leave to oneself (also itself)?1531 let1818 to let a thing bide1866 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > abstain from interfering with > leave (persons) to their own course to let (persons) shifta1400 to leave to oneself (also itself)?1531 ?1531 R. Whitford tr. Folowing of Christe iii. v. f. lxv I am tourned agaynste them: and leue them to them selfe withoute helpe or counseyle of me. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.] 1548 N. Lesse tr. F. Lambert Minde & Iudgem. To Rdr. f. iiij The Lord toke the spirit of stedfastnes and knowledgyng of God from hym: leauyng hym to hymselfe, to fraylenes, to the verye counsel and motion of the flesh. 1602 S. Rowlands Greenes Ghost sig. F3v Hee desired him to leaue him to himselfe, and to take order that no man came to trouble him for some two houres space. 1658 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude 491 Man being left to himself to meer Soul-light or Soul-inclinations, can bring forth no other fruits then such as are carnal. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 73 Which will not allow an heavy body left to itself within a flowsom one that is lighter, to buoy up. 1707 tr. M. Alemán Life Guzman d'Alfarache II. viii. 76 I left him to himself, for I saw well enough he was not in a Humour to argue the Case with me. 1731 E. Aspinwall Apology iv. 150 Can any thing..more feelingly demonstrate the miserable weakness of reason, when left to itself? 1777 D. Garrick Let. 21 Apr. in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 95 The Physician hath partly left me to myself & therefore I may mend. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 8 June 145/1 The individual who writes the present paper was once ‘so far left to himself’ as to spend several months amidst the heartless frivolities which characterise a winter of fashionable life in the Scottish..capitals. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 257 The rage of the hostile factions would have been sufficiently violent, if it had been left to itself. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 802/1 A wire which had been kept vibrating for several hours or days through a certain range came to rest much quicker when left to itself than when set in vibration after it had been at rest for several days and then immediately left to itself. 1910 ‘Saki’ Reginald in Russia 8 Left to themselves, Egbert and Lady Anne would unfailingly have called him Fluff. 1967 R. Singha & R. Massey Indian Dances i. 34 South India had been more or less left to itself. 1997 Sci. Amer. Apr. 10/2 The child may be left to itself and will find its own amusement. < as lemmas |
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