| 单词 | do |
| 释义 | do I. transitive verb 1. archaic < do me not before my time to die — Edmund Spenser > 2. < it is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence … and if I can learn what it is I will do it — Abraham Lincoln > 3. < he did the diadem on — Philemon Holland > — now usually used in the phrase do to death < had been hounded down and done to death as heretics — Stringfellow Barr > 4. < you're bound to do much more walking … than you're accustomed to — Richard Joseph > < watched the natives do a sacred dance > 5. a. < his vacation did him a great deal of good > < the portrait … does him great injustice — Mary R. Mitford > b. < have not sought the honor you have done me — A.E.Stevenson b.1900 > < pilgrims having done their homage to the tomb — Virginia Woolf > 6. < when she had done washing, it was a soft white silky fleece — Seumas O'Kelly > < work waiting for them back on the … prairies when the fun was done — F.B.Gipson > 7. < treason has done his worst — Shakespeare > < he did his best to win the race > < a place where there are men doing thinking — Woodrow Wilson > 8. < men and horses … were pretty well done by the time we got in — C.A.Murray > 9. < he's going to do an article on you — Barnaby Conrad > < the … paintings were done under the immediate influence of his academic masters — Herbert Read > < the commission to do a work for the … Music Festival — Ross Parmenter > 10. a. < did the leading lady in several comedies > b. < told one of the directors … that she would have done my play — Thomas Wolfe > < they were doing a purely musical program — Jack Gould > 11. < a great bookseller who … charges very high prices, he has done me many a time — H.J.Laski > especially < had played the dirty trick on the farmer and done him out of his woodland — Dorothy C. Fisher > < they did him out of his share of the fortune > 12. < do a book from Latin into English > < a prose essay done into rhyming couplets > 13. a. (1) < was doing the parlor when the phone rang > (2) < did the dishes right after supper > b. (1) < do the beets with vinegar > (2) < likes his steak well done > c. < her hair is done in that ugly pompadour of the period — J.P.Marquand > d. < she had done her face and fixed her … hair — Hamilton Basso > e. < did the front bedroom in blue > < did the dining room over > 14. a. < wanted to go on doing chemistry all his life — J.B.S.Haldane > < hardly knows what he wants to do when he finishes college > b. < did his lessons faithfully > 15. a. < did 300 miles on the second day of their trip > < the car did 18 miles to the gallon of gasoline > b. < two cars doing 80 on the turnpike > 16. < tried to do England in a month > < spent all afternoon doing one wing of the museum > 17. < our coats would do us for the goalposts — Mary Purcell > 18. < was doing five years for forgery > 19. < you oughtn't to say a thing like that … it's not done — Dorothy Sayers > 20. < the largish restaurant was full of lunchers all doing themselves exceedingly well — Arnold Bennett > 21. — used as a substitute verb to avoid repetition of a verb < I … chose my wife as she did her wedding gown — Oliver Goldsmith > often in a conclusion to a condition < if you have anything more to say, do it now > intransitive verb 1. < never knew him to do like this before — J.M.MacDonald > < do as I say > 2. a. < men who wish to do well in the world — R.M.Weaver > < how are your crops doing? > < the airlines were doing pretty well — Richard Witkin > b. < how do you do > 3. < should get to know more about … Africa and what's doing there — Emory Ross > 4. < how shall we do for money for these wars — Shakespeare > 5. < worked busily for a few minutes and when he had done, the stretcher was a rectangle — Norman Mailer > < he had done with speech for that evening and gave us no reply — Arnold Bennett > 6. < let us then be up and doing — H.W.Longfellow > 7. obsolete 8. a. < said this country would do for dairy farming — Ellen Glasgow > < an ordinary trout rod of about five ounces … will do nicely — Pete Barrett > < will not do as a translation — R.A.Fowkes > b. < it would never do to neglect official obligations — W.F.de Morgan > 9. — used as a substitute verb to avoid repetition of a verb < when beauty lived and died as flowers do now — Shakespeare > often in a reply to a question < did you go to the movies? I did > 10. — used in the imperative after an imperative verb to add emphasis < be quiet, do > verbal auxiliary 1. a. archaic — used with the infinitive without to to form periphrastic present and past tenses virtually interchangeable with the corresponding simple tenses; now used in biblical or ecclesiastical language < I do set my bow in the cloud — Gen 9:13(Authorized Version) > or in legal or parliamentary language < the motion for adjournment, in order to supersede a question, must be simply that the House do now adjourn — T.E.May > or in poetry < so offers he to give what she did crave — Shakespeare > or in British dialect < ye do be always with the hounds — Charles Lever > — not used with be in American English or in standard British English, nor with have in the literal sense of “possess” in standard British English b. — used with the infinitive without to to form periphrastic present and past tenses now more generally current and acceptable than the corresponding simple tenses in declarative sentences with inverted word order < fervently do we pray — Abraham Lincoln > or in interrogative sentences < did you hear that > or in negative sentences < we do not know > < don't you see > — not used with be in American English or in standard British English, nor with have in the literal sense of “possess” in standard British English c. — used with full stress with the infinitive without to to form periphrastic present and past tenses expressing greater emphasis than the corresponding simple tenses < just as I expected, you did forget my birthday > — not used with be in American English or in standard British English, nor with have in the literal sense of “possess” in standard British English 2. a. — used with full stress with the infinitive without to to form a periphrastic imperative expressing greater emphasis than the simple imperative < do be careful > b. — used with the infinitive without to to form a periphrastic imperative now used to the exclusion of the simple imperative in negative sentences < please do not enter > < don't be foolish > • - do by - do one's block - do proud - do withal - to do II. 1. now chiefly dialect < a great deal of do and a great deal of trouble — Sir Walter Scott > 2. archaic 3. chiefly Britain a. < it is fashionable to support the public school system with an annual do — A.C.Spectorsky > b. : a military engagement : show < he was at Dieppe for the big do — Robert Trout > 4. < the basic dos and don'ts of mental health — Peg Bradner > 5. Australia < looks a bit of a gamble to me but if you think you can make a do of it — Vance Palmer > III. also doh 1. 2. IV. V. VI. 1. 2. < do a Houdini and disappear > 3. < doesn't do cocaine > 4. 5. < do lunch > • - do a number on VII. |
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