单词 | to set one's heart on |
释义 | > as lemmasto set one's heart on (also (†in) a. To place (one's hope or trust) in (also †on); to cause (one's thoughts or affections) to dwell upon or to be centred in something. to set one's heart on (also (†in). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust in, rely on [verb (transitive)] to set one's heart on (also (in)c825 littenc1175 leanc1230 fie1340 trusta1382 resta1393 reappose1567 repose1567 lite1570 rely1574 to set (up) one's rest1579 rely1606 to look back1646 recumba1677 to pin one's faith (also hope, etc.) on (also to) a person's sleeve1791 to look to ——1807 bank1884 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > confident hope, trust > trust in, rely on [verb (transitive)] > put trust in setc825 besetc1175 laya1307 putc1400 repose1538 pin1583 c825 Vesp. Ps. lxxvii. 7 Ðæt hie setten in gode hyht. 971 Blickl. Hom. 227 Up to heofenum..þyder his modgeþanc a geseted wæs. a1300 E.E. Psalter lxi. 11 Nil þou set on þam þi hert. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7226 Þai..on þe world þair hertes sett hard. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 392 Many men..more sette here hertis In good þan in god. c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 854 In vengeance he al his herte sette. c1400 Rule St. Benet (Verse) 607 In god we set al our thoght. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvii. 62 Kyng Arthur sette his loue gretely vpon her. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. iiiv Whose myndes and studyes he..knewe to be..set in the poletique regiment..of the publique wealthe. 1576 G. Gascoigne Droomme of Doomes Day in Wks. (1910) II. 307 To set mynde, upon vice and wickednesse. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 195 His heart is very much set upon the enterprize of Ireland. 1714 J. Addison Lover No. 10. ⁋3 The fragility of china is such as a reasonable being ought by no means to set its heart upon. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 110 He had set his fancy upon..his friend's horses. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliii. 391 She had set her mind on the Major. 1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 i. 3 We set our thoughts on the sublime and beautiful. 1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 2nd Ser. 203 He had set his heart on seeing his son a clergyman. 1891 E. Gerard & D. Gerard Sensitive Plant III. iii. xii. 91 Jeannette had set her fancy there. < as lemmas |
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