英语词汇“to take where one can find it”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to take (a thing) where (also wherever) one can find (or get) it (and variants): to use every available opportunity to obtain something; used as an exhortation to derive any advantage one can from a situation without being too fastidious.

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a1642 J. Suckling Lett. Divers Eminent Personages 55 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) I would not have you deny your self the little things..rather..tast all... You must be content to take it where you can get it.

1704 J. Ozell tr. Molière Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ii. ii. 29 I must have a Patient, and I'll take him where I can find him.

1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres II. ii. iii. xi. 97 A skilful poet..will never be at the labor and pains to confine himself to creating rational beings. No, he will take his matter wheresoever he finds it.

1800 Anti-Jacobin Rev. Apr. 470 You may & ought to take it where you can find it—Necessity must not observe a law in these dayes.

1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xiii. 113 You take it where you can find it. You an't nice as to situation—not you.

1922 R. F. Pettigrew Triumphant Plutocracy xviii. 274 He was seeking political capital and he was willing to take it where he found it, without paying too much attention to nice questions of principle.

1950 Life 24 July 14/1 (advt.) It's nice to take your fun where you find it. But sometimes it's not so easy if you've got Tomorrow on your mind.

1988 R. M. Solow in A. Klamer et al. Consequences Econ. Rhetoric (1990) iii. 32 Opportunism is the only hope. We need all the help we can get and on the whole we take it wherever we get it.

2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 6 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 11 The message of the book..is that love hangs out in the most unlikely of places and you should take it where you find it.

单词	to take where one can find it
释义	> as lemmas to take (a thing) where (also wherever) one can find (or get) it b. to take (a thing) where (also wherever) one can find (or get) it (and variants): to use every available opportunity to obtain something; used as an exhortation to derive any advantage one can from a situation without being too fastidious. ΚΠ a1642 J. Suckling Lett. Divers Eminent Personages 55 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) I would not have you deny your self the little things..rather..tast all... You must be content to take it where you can get it. 1704 J. Ozell tr. Molière Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ii. ii. 29 I must have a Patient, and I'll take him where I can find him. 1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres II. ii. iii. xi. 97 A skilful poet..will never be at the labor and pains to confine himself to creating rational beings. No, he will take his matter wheresoever he finds it. 1800 Anti-Jacobin Rev. Apr. 470 You may & ought to take it where you can find it—Necessity must not observe a law in these dayes. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xiii. 113 You take it where you can find it. You an't nice as to situation—not you. 1922 R. F. Pettigrew Triumphant Plutocracy xviii. 274 He was seeking political capital and he was willing to take it where he found it, without paying too much attention to nice questions of principle. 1950 Life 24 July 14/1 (advt.) It's nice to take your fun where you find it. But sometimes it's not so easy if you've got Tomorrow on your mind. 1988 R. M. Solow in A. Klamer et al. Consequences Econ. Rhetoric (1990) iii. 32 Opportunism is the only hope. We need all the help we can get and on the whole we take it wherever we get it. 2010 Irish Times (Nexis) 6 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 11 The message of the book..is that love hangs out in the most unlikely of places and you should take it where you find it. extracted from takev. < as lemmas
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