| 单词 | to take pleasure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take (a) pleasure P5. to take (a) pleasure: to derive happiness or enjoyment, to delight. Usually with in. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > be pleased [verb (intransitive)] > take pleasure pleasec1350 banquet?1518 framp1532 pleasure1538 to take (a) pleasure1538 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Teneri ludo, to take pleasure in game. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I3 I take no pleasure to be murtherous. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cii. 14 Thy servants take pleasure in her stones. View more context for this quotation 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 167 Then the hunters all choose their marke, taking pleasure in darting their lances. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xix. 231 Was drowned..by a Pinnace's oversetting, in which he and his Lady had been taking a Pleasure on the Water. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 286 That prince..took a pleasure in being visible and of easy access to their people. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) v. 332 Were taking their pleasure in our neighborhood. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula iii. 38 The Count's warning came into my mind, but I took a pleasure in disobeying it. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. viii. 91 His followers..laughed at the pursuit of the regular cavalry sent to hunt them down, and whom they took pleasure to ambush most scientifically in the broken ground of their own fastness. 1915 J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers i. 15 That bold girl singing a martial ballad to the storm and taking pleasure in the snellness of the air. 1988 M. Hocking Irrelevant Woman (1989) ix. 126 Tea was a meal at which she excelled, the only meal which she took any pleasure in preparing. < as lemmas |
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