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单词 do the honour
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to do (a person or thing) the honour
b. to do (a person or thing) the honour: (with of and gerund or to-infinitive) to honour (a person or thing) by performing a specified action; to show a specified mark of respect or courtesy to.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > give honour to [verb (transitive)]
wortheOE
i-worthOE
menskc1225
athelec1275
aworthyc1275
honoura1325
furtherc1374
honesta1382
worship1389
gloryc1400
dignifya1530
worthy1532
endue1565
enhonour1571
to do (a person or thing) the honour?1572
deign1579
honorify1606
famous1622
blazon1815
to do a person proud1819
?1572 T. Paynell tr. Treasurie Amadis of Fraunce 88 I shal kepe companie (if it so please you) with these other Ladyes, if they wyll do me the honoure to receiue me.
1623 Let. to F. Bacon 20 Dec. in Baconia (1679) 208 [We] to whom you have pleas'd to do the honour of sending a Letter.
a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 189 His late Majesty..doing me one day the honour to discourse about several marine observations.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 60 I must do him the Honour to go with him to wait on the King.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 70 He..begg'd I would do him the honour to present him to the lady.
a1828 H. Neele Literary Remains (1829) 207 The Debtor's prison..is thus designated, at Boulougne.., on account of our countrymen who do it the honour to take up their residence there.
1898 E. E. Hale in Christian World 19 May 7/4 He did me the honour to say that this was precisely true.
1916 Cosmopolitan May 848/1 ‘That is so, isn't it, Bowden?’ he said, without doing him the honor to look at him.
1984 New Scientist 9 Feb. 80/1 If you cannot handle your native language with some fluency and do it the honour of spelling its words correctly, customers..will be deeply unimpressed.
2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man xxi. 166 Will you..do me the honour of accepting a gift that comes..with no strings attached.
extracted from honourhonorn.
to do (also perform) the honour
P6. to do (also perform) the honours: (chiefly with of) to perform the civilities or courtesies associated with a particular thing or place; to serve as a host or hostess; to perform some specified or implied social act. Also to do (also perform) the honour.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)]
obeya1450
accomplement1601
to do (also perform) the honoura1645
complement1649
forsooth1661
complimenta1704
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. i. 147 He..intreated Zelmattida to give him leave, to performe the honour of his lodging.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. ix. 183 Received with respect..at Amsterdam, where that illustrious Magistracy performed the honours of the Republick.
1715 J. Vanbrugh Country House i, in Wks. (1840) 462/1 This son of a whore does the honours of my house to a miracle.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. vi. 13 Then hire a Slave, or (if you will, a Lord) To do the Honours, and to give the Word.
1768 in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury I. 168 The Duchesse..did the honours of the table, or rather received them, as ladies here never interfere with carving.
1849 Sporting Mag. Sept. 168 Our host's favourite daughter, whose pleasure it had been to rise thus early to do the honour of the breakfast-table for her father and her guest.
1871 R. Browning Balaustion 112 To guests, a servant should not sour-faced be, But do the honours with a mind urbane.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxii. 192 She and Harold would rest while I did the honours of the fern grots to my companion.
1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 269/2 Nothing a nice roaring fire can't solve. Baldrick—do the honours, will you?
1999 J. Schueler Elsewhere 19 A family member was the caretaker and did the honors of his absent master's house.
2011 L. Graham Ghost of Greenwich Village 252 He did the honors, carving the lamb beautifully.
extracted from honourhonorn.
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