单词 | to warm to |
释义 | > as lemmasto warm (up) to 11. To become eager, animated, or enthusiastic. Also, with up. to warm (up) to: to become interested in, acquire zest for, to ‘put one's back into’ (one's work, a contest, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > be or become zealous [verb (intransitive)] zeala1626 to warm (up) to1749 enthuse1864 schwärm1913 to wax lyrical1965 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. xi. xiv. 174 I expected every moment, to see them warm, and to go to loggerheads, the usual end of their dissertations. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 7 ‘I'll tell you,’ replied Mr. Gabriel Parsons, warming with the subject, and the brandy-and-water.—‘I know a lady [etc.]’. 1846 B. Disraeli in W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli (1914) III. 11 I have not yet added much to my abortive MSS. of the German Schloss of last year, but am beginning to warm up. 1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxxviii Papa's first nervousness is over: his noble voice clears, warms to his sermon. 1867 H. Latham Black & White 5 Congress will by that time have met, and be warming to their work. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. iv. 72 When he found that his competitor was formidable, he warmed to the race. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 364 He warmed up as he went along. 1885 M. E. Wilkins in Harper's Mag. Mar. 594/1 She warmed up on the subject. < as lemmas |
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