单词 | i reckon |
释义 | > as lemmasI reckon d. intransitive. I reckon: I believe, expect, think, etc. Used parenthetically or at the end of a sentence. Now colloquial.Cf. I guess at guess v. 6. ΚΠ ?1526 M. Roper tr. Erasmus Deuout Treat. Pater Noster sig. b To vanquisshe and ouercome the better for the best parte (as I reken) whom I accompte the wysest of euery age.] 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. ix. 200 But for further answeare, I recken, M. Hardinge cannot be ignorant, that [etc.]. 1603 R. Cecil Let. 29 May in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 85 He is, I reckon, no wise man that looketh this waye to heaven. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. xlvi. 326 I shall have a good deal of trouble, I reckon,..to be decent on the expected occasion. a1777 S. Foote Capuchin (1778) i. 108 All your family..come over to be polish'd, I reckon. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. vii. 107 Neither of us, I reckon, has ever had much to do with [etc.]. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iv. xx. 162 You would just as soon save your lives, I reckon. 1929 T. Hardy Old Mrs Chundle 15 I may as well do that as do nothing, I reckon. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 8 Feb. 31/3 I'm engaged on a three-volume study of the post-war period which, I reckon, now needs to be broken up into mini-eras. < as lemmas |
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