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单词 have no mind
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to have no mind
a. With a subordinate clause. To wish, desire, intend. Also in negative construction to have no mind. Obsolete.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 72v Forȝetful & vnkonnynge, he haþ no mynde þat he schal ȝeue to his lord acountes of his outrage.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces ii. 95 They had no mind that Her Ambassador should be present.
1705 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 65 I believe he had no mind it should be done whilst I was there.
1732 H. Fielding Mock Doctor 5 Suppose I've a mind he should drub, Whose bones are they, Sir, he's to lick?
1750–2 Bible (Challoner) 2 Chron. xxix. 10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 138 Have ye a mind I should scour my knife between your ribs, as my mother says?
1845 R. Browning Flight of Duchess vi, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 13/2 The Duke had a mind we should cut a figure.
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to have no mind
b. With infinitive. To wish, desire, intend or be inclined (to do something). Now usually with premodifying adjective, most commonly to have a good (also great) mind: to be strongly disposed or inclined (to do something). to have half a mind: to have nearly made up one's mind (to do something). to have two minds: to be undecided (whether to do something) (cf. sense 10d). Similarly to have no mind (now somewhat archaic).The form I'm (also I've) a good mind (also half a mind, etc.) is still current in British and U.S. regional use.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb]
willeOE
listc1200
to be of (also in) (a) minda1325
to will well that1340
likea1375
to find in one's hearta1393
to have a minda1400
pleasec1450
set1470
to have a mind1530
care1560
fadge1592
please1611
choose1622
offer1639
to feel like1808
the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb] > strongly
goodeOE
to have a good (also great) minda1400
to have a gay mind1557
to have half a mind1726
a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 44 For the greet mynde that he hath to done his maystris wille.
a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 304 I haue a great mynd to be a lecherovs man.
1639 J. Shirley Ball iii. sig. D3v Harke you Mounsieur, this gentleman has a great Minde to learne to dance.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 392 Wh[itelocke] was importuned by his daughter Pryce..to come into Wales this Summer, & he had a good minde to it.
1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 181 And now I have a mind to set up for a Maker of Hypotheses.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 364 The Duke of Lorraine had a very good mind to get footing in Ireland.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World xvi. 452 They had half a mind to refuse me a passage.
1754 S. Johnson Let. 28 Nov. in Corr. (1995) i. 29 Would a letter give him any pleasure; I have a mind to write.
1819 Ld. Byron Let. 5 July (1976) VI. 176 I have half a mind to go back in search of La Fanchette.
1823 Ld. Byron Let. 28 Mar. (1980) X. 131 I had a great mind to send you his unpaid bills.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 26 It was lucky for us that we did not follow the nuptial procession (which we had more than half a mind to do).
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour ii. xii. 60 I'm a good mind to have his throat cut.
1858 Wilhelmina in T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. ii. 19 My Brother and I had all the mind in the world to laugh.
1870 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings 2nd Ser. 102 He had little mind to be a martyr, but he had still less a mind to be a knave.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) IV. xvii. 54 He had no mind to be a mere conqueror.
1879 T. H. Sayre Strategist (MS) ii. 22 The old man is feeble and rheumatic. I've a good mind to lick him, and get square with his son.
1882 Cent. Mag. July 341/1 ‘This one,’ he went on slowly, taking up a soft, blue merino, ‘I'm half a mind to put back in the drawer.’
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms II. xii. 205 We'd two minds to camp on the mountain.
1923 W. S. Maugham Our Betters ii. 111 I've got half a mind to get the people..to copy it.
1930 G. B. Johnson in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iv. iii. 698 ‘I'm a good mind to whup you,’ says a Negro mother to her son.
1975 L. Gillen Return to Deepwater iv. 61 I'd a mind to show Miss McCourt the portrait, sir.
1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) viii. 221 I have a good mind to report you to Sister Rita.
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