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单词 i promise you
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I promise you
3. transitive and intransitive. colloquial. With subordinate clause as object or parenthetically within or after a statement: to convey assurance of some fact; to assert confidently or emphatically; to declare. Chiefly with indirect object in I promise you: ‘I assure you’, ‘I tell you plainly’.
a. In assurance of a statement relating to the present or the past.
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the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > assure, confirm, or guarantee [verb (transitive)] > a person
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behightc1386
promise1469
insurea1500
warranta1529
resolve1567
the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (transitive)] > confidently
promitc1422
promise1469
1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 542 He losyth sore hys tyme her, I promyse yow.
1535 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 74 The comyssioners, I promyse you, have been very necligent.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. ii. 43 I doe not like thy looke I promise thee. View more context for this quotation
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion xii. 37 The Nights, I promise you, are very cold.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 366 For I promise I long for it.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. i. 169 I promise thee it is what I have desired. View more context for this quotation
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) v. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 137 Sir Peter, you are come in good time, I promise you; for we had just given you over.
1841 F. E. Paget Tales of Village (1852) 466 I promise you I'm preciously tired already.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Beach of Falesa iii. 71 The certificate was wrote by Case, and it's a dandy piece of literature, I promise you.
1969 ‘C. Fremlin’ Possession i. 9 I know his mother, and she's frightful! She really is, Clare, I promise you: she's ghastly!
1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 76 I promise you, there is nothing in your beliefs or unbeliefs that can't serve as the basis for an effective and deeply satisfying Christian ministry.
b. With reference to the future, as a strong assertion of one's intention.Sometimes implying a threat of something disadvantageous or unpleasant. Now also in elliptical use.
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the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (transitive)]
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generalize?a1425
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a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 1603 (MED) He shall not spede, I yow promysse.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 17 I promys you I schal never pretermyt occasyon..of helpyng my cuntrey.
1694 J. Crowne Married Beau iii. 36 I promise you, I will not spare my self; I'll live in everlasting Grief and Shame.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. x. 55 I will be decent, I promise you.
1777 C. Dibdin Quaker i. i. 3 You won't get a lamb out of our fold, I promise you.
1825 C. Thirlwall tr. J. L. Tieck Pictures 80 Well, I promise you, you shall find I do not come again.
1870 J. G. Austin Shadow of Moloch Mountain li. 133 I will finish it—I promise you.
1928 Z. N. Hurston Let. 15 Oct. in Life in Lett. (2002) 129 You are going to have plenty of editing to do after this expedition is over, I promise you.
1955 S. J. Perelman in New Yorker 23 Apr. 30/2 But remember, just one drink and off to your beddie-byes. Promise?
1986 Punch 16 July 31/1 I eventually gave in and let Flora wear my jacket... She'd look after it, promise.
1990 G. Naylor Better than Life 102 And I promise you, that shot's not going to come off.
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