单词 | to seek one's best |
释义 | > as lemmasto seek one's best ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > seek one's advantage to seek one's best avail1297 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 940 Oþer half ȝer we abbeþ now iwend wiþ oute reste In þe grete se of occean vorto seche oure beste. a1300 K. Horn 770 ‘Cutberd’, he sede, ‘ihc hote, Icomen vt of þe bote, Wel feor fram biweste To seche mine beste’. a1300 Cursor Mundi 2456 For þai wit þaim moght haf na rest, Þai most þan scail and seke þair best. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique Pref. sig. A iijv Menne lyued Brutyshlye in open feldes, hauiug neither house to shroude them in,..nor yet anye regarde to seeke their best auayle. < as lemmas |
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