英语词汇“to weigh one's words”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 ponder and examine the force of (words or expressions). to weigh one's words: to speak deliberately and in calculated terms.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > with restraint or carefully

to weigh one's words1340

to carry one's mouth (also tongue) in one's heart?1576

to mince words1826

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)] > force of words

weigh1340

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 Huo þet ne weȝþ his wordes ine þe waye of discrecion.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 256 Huer me ssel weȝe þet word er hit be yzed.

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas 215 Words of worth, and worthy to be wayed.

1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 16 If we way Poetes wordes and not ther meaning, our learning in them wilbe very mene.

1627 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 309 The old King..thought the Preacher never had thought of his Sermon, till he spoke it... I knew that he had weighed every syllable, for halfe a year before.

1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1164 Then Hope replyde,.. And wisely weighd his words.

1655 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 14 I must..weigh my words before they are sent abroad.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 62 His words well-weigh'd, the gen'ral voice approv'd.

1846 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. (1869) 2nd Ser. 64 The moralist..has far other work than to weigh expressions and analyze definitions.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 213 Mr. Carker read this slowly: weighing the words as he went.

1877 T. H. Huxley Techn. Educ. Sci. & Cult. (1881) 82 I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money.

单词	to weigh one's words
释义	> as lemmas to weigh one's words b. To ponder and examine the force of (words or expressions). to weigh one's words: to speak deliberately and in calculated terms. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > with restraint or carefully to weigh one's words1340 to carry one's mouth (also tongue) in one's heart?1576 to mince words1826 the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)] > force of words weigh1340 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 Huo þet ne weȝþ his wordes ine þe waye of discrecion. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 256 Huer me ssel weȝe þet word er hit be yzed. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas 215 Words of worth, and worthy to be wayed. 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 16 If we way Poetes wordes and not ther meaning, our learning in them wilbe very mene. 1627 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 309 The old King..thought the Preacher never had thought of his Sermon, till he spoke it... I knew that he had weighed every syllable, for halfe a year before. 1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1164 Then Hope replyde,.. And wisely weighd his words. 1655 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 14 I must..weigh my words before they are sent abroad. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 62 His words well-weigh'd, the gen'ral voice approv'd. 1846 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. (1869) 2nd Ser. 64 The moralist..has far other work than to weigh expressions and analyze definitions. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 213 Mr. Carker read this slowly: weighing the words as he went. 1877 T. H. Huxley Techn. Educ. Sci. & Cult. (1881) 82 I weigh my words when I say that if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. extracted from weighv.¹ < as lemmas
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