单词 | way of looking at it |
释义 | > as lemmasway of looking at it (also things) f. way of looking at it (also things): a particular perspective from which one views a situation, event, or problem; a point of view. extracted from wayn.1int.1 (a) With possessive, referring to a person's point of view or opinion, esp. as characterized or shaped by particular attitudes and presuppositions. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > mental attitude, point of view > [noun] spectaclec1386 reckoninga1393 view1573 sect1583 prospective1603 light1610 posture1642 point of view1701 stand1819 attitude of mind1832 psychology1834 standpoint1834 perspective1841–8 position1845 viewpoint1856 angle1860 way of looking at it1861 attitudea1873 pose1892 Anschauung1895 slant1905 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. v. 95 Mary's habits, and thoughts, and ways of looking at and judging of people and things, were much changed. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. xvii. 218 I can't make out that what he tells me about the royal family is much to their credit; but he says that's only my peculiar way of looking at it. 1905 E. G. White Ministry of Healing 483 We differ so widely in disposition, habits, education, that our ways of looking at things vary. 1982 Irish Times 22 Aug. 10/7 And so also it was with Mr Haughey, by his way of looking at it. 2007 M. Murray Tears for Breakfast (2008) v. 86 It's just her way of looking at things. We see it differently. (b) With modifying adjective. ΚΠ 1866 F. B. Zincke Extemporary Preaching 157 There is..quite another way of looking at it... I mean the Apostle's way of looking at it. 1893 ‘L. Carroll’ Sylvie & Bruno Concluded ii. 27 It's a new way of looking at it—to me..but it seems a true way, also. 1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. i. 202 It's one way of looking at things. 1963 D. Lessing Man & Two Women 141 I mean to say, you've got to take the rough with the smooth, and there's no other way of looking at it. 2004 Jetsgo In-flight Mag. de Bord Oct. 17 Obviously that's a very pessimistic way of looking at things. < as lemmas |
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