释义 |
wont1 nounwont2 adjective wontwont2 adjective formal  wont2Origin: 1100-1200 Past participle of wone ‘to be used to doing something’ (11-17 centuries), from Old English wunian ‘to live in a place, be used to’ - Be still, my beating heart, as T. Wogan was wont to say.
- Ickes is wont to yawn in mid-conversation.
- It could be catastrophic if he started giving himself airs, as tenors are wont to do.
- The theist thereby comes to justify as a paradox what the atheist is wont to dismiss as a confusion.
► be wont to do something- Be still, my beating heart, as T. Wogan was wont to say.
- Hapsburg officers, especially hussars, were wont to please themselves what they wore.
- Ickes is wont to yawn in mid-conversation.
- Indeed Bourdieu is wont to speak of functions or their functional equivalent.
- It transpired that there was a secluded roof on her house where she was wont to sunbathe totally naked.
- It was not often that the High King searched me for truth as he was wont to search lesser men.
be wont to do something to be likely to do something |