| 单词 | i should be glad to (hear, know |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI should be glad to (hear, know d. With infinitive: Happy, delighted, pleased to (do, be, etc.); also, well content to (do, have, etc. something in default of better). In modern use frequently in the phrases I am glad to hear, see (etc.); also, I should be glad to (hear, know, etc.) with sarcastic force. ΚΠ c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 320 Thise ladyes were nat right glad To handle hir clothes wher Inne she was clad. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 19396 Oþes þenne to hem þei made To do hit were þei wondir glade. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6372 To wyn away he was full glad. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bv Euery christen man and woman..shulde be..the gladder to fulfyll his blessed wyll. 1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxiii. 261 Now [they are] glaid to get Peis breid and watter Caill. 1670 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 21 I received yours and am very glad to heare you are so merry with the musicke and danceing. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 52. ⁋3 We shall be heartily glad to see your short face in Oxford. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. iii. 30 I should be glad to know where you have received your intelligence? 1814 D. H. O'Brien Narr. Captiv. & Escape 16 And told us that we ought to have been glad to have got any thing. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 164 He was glad to turn away from the stage and to talk about publick affairs. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 298 I was glad to see the mangrove-belt. < as lemmas |
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