| 单词 | if you please |
| 释义 | > as lemmasif (also †and) you please c. if (also †and) you please. extracted from pleasev. (a) intransitive. Used as a courteous qualification to a polite request, or as an acceptance of an offer, etc.: if it be your will or pleasure, with your permission, if you like. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [interjection] > emphasizing a following statement whatOE loOE lookOE aha1225 loura1225 halec1300 why1545 if (also and) you pleasec1563 ahem1606 I say1613 ahey1696 sithee1828 please it you1881 lookit1907 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > qualifying a request or statement if (also and) you pleasec1563 c1563 Jyl of Breyntfords Test. sig. B.ii But tary I pray you all if ye please. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 50 Let me say no my liedge, and yf you please. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 314 Pray sir, put your sword vp if you please . View more context for this quotation 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 58 I wyll goe, and you please. a1653 H. Binning Serm. (1845) 419 Ye need not be made miserable, but if you please. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. iii. 28 ‘I think, I have sufficiently warmed myself,’ answered the Lady, ‘so if you please I will go now.’ View more context for this quotation 1800 J. T. Allingham 'Tis All Farce i. 18 Serj. Now, Sir, follow me, if you please. Num. But I do not please, Sir. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds I. vi. 75 I'll sit down, if you please. 1906 O. Wester Lady Baltimore vii. 89 I'll have to-day, if you please, another slice of that Lady Baltimore. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden xi. 227 Concentrate if you please on some favorite flower, but avoid monoculture. (b) intransitive. Used sarcastically to express surprise and indignation at something unreasonable (as if asking leave to report such a thing). ΚΠ 1816 J. Austen Emma I. xii. 214 South End is prohibited, if you please . View more context for this quotation 1848 W. M. Thackeray Let. in Scribner's Mag. (1887) Apr. 391/1 I heard of the father and son in the other regiment.., the Slashers if you please, being carried up drunk to bed. 1879 Cornhill Mag. 40 558 He wants to pay his addresses, if you please, to Ursula! 1951 J. Cornish Provincials 57 In the winter the heating system was always going on the blink and then the headmistress would scurry round opening windows, if you please. 1973 Math. Teacher May 479/1 To a monotonous degree, then, each aspect of the operation of the Council is in the hands of the mathematics educators—the teachers, if you please. 1996 Neon Dec. 92/4 Brando wears a kaftan apparently borrowed from Claire Rayner and rides around in a popemobile, if you please. < as lemmas |
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