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单词 to think twice
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to think twice
g. intransitive. to think twice: (a) to give particularly careful consideration to something; also in the proverb think twice, then speak and variants; (b) (with about) to hesitate, change one's mind (about), decide against (an action); (c) (with about in a negative context) (not) to take notice of or worry about.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute about [verb (transitive)]
stagger1555
hesitate1623
to think twice1936
1623 W. Painter Chaucer New Painted sig. B 1v Thinke twise, then speak, the old Prouerbe doth say.
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? vii. 277 You thinke twice before you speake, and may be demanded twice before you answer.
1728 J. Smedley Gulliveriana 273 He despis'd what was wrong, and abus'd what was right: Had a Knack to laugh luckily, never thought twice.
1825 L. M. Child Rebels xvii. 233 In the days of my youth, a single lady would have thought twice before she undertook any thing so grossly improper.
1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer iii. 119 He thinks twice before he commits himself.
1902 E. Hubbard in Philistine May 192 Think twice before you speak and then talk to yourself.
1910 G. F. Hill in Archaeologia 62 140 Had I come across this MS. at the beginning of my search, I should have thought twice before going on.
1936 W. H. S. Smith Let. 21 Nov. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 43 When they find that I am neither a Blue..nor a bridge-player, they may think twice about offering the appointment to me.
1955 M. Hastings Cork & Serpent v. 67 Don't worry. Nobody here thinks twice about me.
1981 P. Salway Roman Brit. 705 This must make us think twice before attributing reasons to any funerary or religious practice from the ancient world for which we have no written evidence.
2002 L. Olsen Girl Imagined by Chance 175 When you were young, we didn't think twice about putting you in the backseat of the car and just taking off.
extracted from thinkv.2
to think twice
e. to think twice: to consider a matter a second time (before deciding or acting); to deliberate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)]
thinkOE
thinkOE
bethinka1200
umthinka1300
to have mind ofc1300
casta1340
studya1375
delivera1382
to chew the cudc1384
to take advisementa1393
stema1400
compassc1400
advisec1405
deliberc1405
to make it wisec1405
to take deliberationc1405
enter?a1413
riddlec1426
hovec1440
devise?c1450
to study by (also in) oneself?c1450
considerc1460
porec1500
regard1523
deliberate1543
to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546
contemplate1560
consult1565
perpend1568
vise1568
to consider of1569
weigh1573
ruminate1574
dascanc1579
to lay to (one's) heart1588
pondera1593
debate1594
reflect1596
comment1597
perponder1599
revolvea1600
rumine1605
consider on, upon1606
to think twice1623
reflex1631
spell1645
ponderatea1652
to turn about1725
to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736
to wake over1771
incubatea1847
mull1857
fink1888
1623 W. Painter in Oxf. Dict. Eng. Proverbs (1970) 263/1 Thinke twise, then speak, the old Prouerbe doth say.
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? vii. 277 You thinke twice before you speake, and may be demanded twice before you answer.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 180 If a fule may gie a wise man a counsel, I wad hae him think twice or he mells wi' Knockdunder.
1853 C. Brontë Villette I. viii. 147 I saw in her countenance a something that made me think twice ere I decided.
1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 56 Do not think twice about it..but say ‘No’.
1890 Spectator 27 Dec. 932/1 He may..think twice before he formally undertakes so unremunerative a struggle.
1910 G. F. Hill in Archaeologia 62 140 I confess that had I come across this MS. at the beginning of my search, I should have thought twice before going on.
1934 C. Carmer in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iii. ii. 506 Chillun..think twict befo' yuh speak onct.
1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. i. 137 ‘Seems like Hitler's thinking twicet,’ said a gentleman behind him.
extracted from twiceadv.n.adj.
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