| 单词 | in one's heart of hearts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin one's heart of hearts (b) heart of hearts (originally †heart of heart, heart's heart): the centre or depth of one's heart; one's inmost heart or feelings. Esp. in one's heart of hearts. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > seat of the emotions > [noun] > breast or heart > inmost heart or bottom of heart groundc1175 heart-roota1200 roota1200 heartstring1533 heart of hearts1604 heart's core1604 recess1605 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 71 I will weare him In my harts core, I in my hart of hart [1676 ed. Davenant heart of hearts] . View more context for this quotation 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 98 O Israel..in thy harts-hart (not in Marble) beare His ever-lasting Lawe. a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 161 Him deep engrave In your hearts Heart, from whom all good ye have. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xcix. 74 Give me a scoundrel (so he be a sensible one) and I will put him in my heart of hearts! 1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 158 Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might. View more context for this quotation 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxxiii. 293 That she should be admitted to his heart of hearts. 1910 W. Martyn Man Outside x. 183 Surely you must feel it in your heart's heart! 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley (1940) xxix. 333 We all know in our heart of hearts that we are a good deal more comfortably off than we would be anywhere else. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana (1962) 21 Oh, I knew you'd take it like this... I knew it in my heart of hearts. 2004 D. Peace GB 84 291/2 Thing is, no one honestly believed they'd come out for us—Not in their heart of hearts. < as lemmas |
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