| 单词 | to let it pass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto let it pass a. intransitive. to let (something) pass: to allow (something) to occur, be done, or be said without comment or challenge; to raise no objection to (something). Chiefly in to let it pass. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 60v Þere I lete þis matere passe wiþ scilens. 1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 355v/2 Of your gentilnesse I you require my boistousnesse Ye let passe, as thing rude. 1650 A. Cowley Guardian iii. vi. sig. C4 Captain, I thought thou hadst been at Erebus by this time: but 'tis no matter; 'tis but an Epitaph lost: hang't, 'twas made ex tempore, and so let it pass. 1701 J. Howe Some Consideration Pref. Enq. 32 'Tis not to be let pass, that you, or your Author, industriously represent the Primitive English Puritans..as if they were generally of your stingy, narrow Spirit. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 12 He let it pass..preferring to point his whip at some object which could raise no questions. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers iv. viii. 325 ‘Yes sir,’ he said. ‘I did use the word... I said I was sorry, but I soon shan't be.’ ‘Come, let it pass then,’ said Frodo. 1993 Fort Collins (Colorado) Triangle Rev. 6 May 25/1 Knowing Pundit as I do, I knew he was just pulling my strings so I let it pass. < as lemmas |
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