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单词 to take things as one finds them
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to take things as one finds them
(b) to take a person as one finds him (her, etc.): to judge a person without preconceptions; to accept a person as he or she is, esp. by expecting no special preparations for one's arrival, entertainment, etc. Similarly to take people as one finds them, to take things as one finds them, to take it as one finds it, etc.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [verb (intransitive)] > be forbearing or tolerant
to take a person as one finds him (her, etc.)?a1439
forbeara1616
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. l. 198 (MED) Men must at lepis take me [sc. Fortune] as thei fynde.
1580 A. Munday Zelauto sig. H2v In the meane whyle, take as you finde.
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax Prol. sig. B4v Wee must nowe take him as we finde him, with all his faults.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. v. 241 But reall externall deeds doe take things in grosse as they find them, not separating things which in reality are joyned together.
1689 Murmurers Pref. sig. A For my Poem, take it as you find it. The Subject wou'd have born much better, and I'm sure you have read much worse.
1711 A. Pope Let. 21 Dec. in Wks. (1871) VI. 130 Take it as you find it, the production of half an hour t'other morning.
1775 R. H. Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 65 We must be content, however, to take human nature as we find it.
a1817 J. Austen Watsons in Wks. (1954) VI. 351 I am one of those who always take things as they find them. I hope I can put up with a small apartment for two or three nights.
1825 H. Wilson Mem. I. 147 I could have been a little romantic about you, it is true; but I always take people as I find them.
1868 C. Dickens in Our Young Folks May 260 We have but a simple joint..but if you will take us as you find us it will be so kind!
1912 A. Lang Shakespeare, Bacon & Great Unknown xii. 247 I am only taking Ben as I find him and as I understand him.
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger vi. 49 All these go by wearing the peevish expression of a housewife who, not having time to make the beds, grumbles: ‘You must take us as you find us.’
1980 T. Barling Goodbye Piccadilly vii. 129 ‘Do we phone ahead in the name of protocol?’ ‘Hell, no. We take them as we find them.’
2011 A. Rickloff Earl of Darkness iv. 45 Geordie had a nonchalant outlook on life—take it as you find it.
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