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单词 gay abandon
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(with) gay abandon
e. (with) gay abandon: (in) a carefree or expansive manner; (with) lack of consideration for the consequences of an action.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > careless or heedless [phrase]
at or on six and sevena1398
(with) gay abandon1842
1838 Operative 11 Nov. 20/3 In the classical precincts of Pie-corner, was Paddy to be found every evening, in a state of gay abandon, or sedate repose.
1910 P. MacKaye Garland to Sylvia ii. i. 72 At the end, Sylvia with her arm about Hikrion dances out, right, with graceful, gay abandon, followed by the others.
1925 H. W. Brecht in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 (1926) 143 Very vivid in his mind still was the gay abandon of those afternoons.
1943 S. A. Brown et al. Negro Caravan iii. 281 The gay abandon of cabarets, the weary blues of a wandering piano plunker.
1977 Arab Times 14 Dec. 10/3 Jumpers threw themselves at the bar with gay abandon without the slightest modicum of lift at take-off.
1998 Artist Mar. 45/2 It can do neither your painting style nor yourself any harm to swing a paintbrush with gay abandon—just watch out for the wallpaper!
2003 Daily Tel. 20 Feb. 22/2 She was dancing about with gay abandon, and smoking a spliff.
extracted from gayadj.adv.n.
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