英语词汇“cannot choose”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. cannot choose = have no alternative, cannot do otherwise, cannot help. (Also interrogative: see quot. 1592.) Obsolete except as in 5b.

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a1400 Cov. Myst., Abraham 54 Alas, dere childe, I may not chese, I must nedys my swete sone kylle.

1500 God Speed plough (Skeat) 35 Thus be we shepe shorne, we may not chese.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 21 Without any rest, but at suche passages as they coulde nat chese.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. C3^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) How can it otherwise choose? is not the matter plaine and euident?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 187 'Tis a good dulnesse, And giue it way: I know thou canst not chuse.

a1617 S. Hieron Bargaine of Salt in Wks. (1620) II. 499 There are some differences of opinion, as it cannot bee chosen.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §101. 116 One cannot chuse seeing, what part of the Man is nearest the Earth.

单词	cannot choose
释义	> as lemmas cannot choose a. cannot choose = have no alternative, cannot do otherwise, cannot help. (Also interrogative: see quot. 1592.) Obsolete except as in 5b. ΚΠ a1400 Cov. Myst., Abraham 54 Alas, dere childe, I may not chese, I must nedys my swete sone kylle. 1500 God Speed plough (Skeat) 35 Thus be we shepe shorne, we may not chese. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 21 Without any rest, but at suche passages as they coulde nat chese. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. C3^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) How can it otherwise choose? is not the matter plaine and euident? a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 187 'Tis a good dulnesse, And giue it way: I know thou canst not chuse. View more context for this quotation a1617 S. Hieron Bargaine of Salt in Wks. (1620) II. 499 There are some differences of opinion, as it cannot bee chosen. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §101. 116 One cannot chuse seeing, what part of the Man is nearest the Earth. extracted from choosev. < as lemmas
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