| 单词 | to one's mind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto one's mind b. to one's mind: according to one's wish, to one's taste or liking. Similarly †according to (also after) one's mind (obsolete). Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [phrase] > to one's taste to one's minda1500 a1500 Sidrac & Bokkus (Lansd.) 3719 (MED) God made euery beest after his minde. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 580/1 I have a person or a beest accordyng to my mynde, I have them in suche awe as I desyre. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. vii. 26 Yf thou haue a wife after thine owne mynde, forsake her not. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. iv. 6 Which had nether harnesse ner sweardes to their myndes. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. vi. 5) [Saul] grunts against himself because he [sc. God] handles him nat after his own mind. 1685 in J. G. Dunlop Dunlop Papers (1953) III. 18 Agnes Fergison..heath goten a master to her own myend. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. iv. 86 Those Gropers, who, to gather one according to their Mind, will spoil a hundred by the violent impression of their Unskillful Thumb. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 249 It was however, some Time before we could get a Ship to our Minds. ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 92 in School of Arts (ed. 2) You may brighten it to your mind by the above mixture. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council (1873) I. viii. 130 Commands are expected to be fulfilled..exactly to the mind of the person ordering. 1898 Dict. National Biogr. LVI. 21/2 Nothing was more to the mind of Nicholas. 1918 ‘B. MacNamara’ Valley of Squinting Windows 52 Ulick Shannon was finding the valley very little to his mind. 1966 R. Pitter Still by Choice 19 Seeing what that heat sees is not to my mind. < as lemmas |
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