| 单词 | it is always the way with |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit is always (also seldom, etc.) the way with i. it is always (also seldom, etc.) the way with: used to assert that the specified person always (seldom, etc.) behaves in the manner stated or implied. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > in the habit (of) > he always acts so it is always (also seldom, etc.) the way with1762 1762 S. Foote et al. tr. Comic Theatre II. 28 This is always the way with these women; they think of nothing but their dress and their looks. 1778 A. Murphy Know your own Mind iii. 40 There, that is always the way with you men: our smiles, are sure marks of approbation; and every civil thing we say, is construed into a promise. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 12 ‘And this is always the way with him,’ she added.—‘Whatever can give his sister any pleasure, is sure to be done in a moment.’ View more context for this quotation 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 221 It is too much the way with you objectors to say, [etc.]. 1867 M. Oliphant Madonna Mary I. viii. 119 But then that is often the way with those well-off people. 1904 M. Hewlett Queen's Quair iii. v. 409 They tell me it was always the way with her family, to choose rather to be easy in low company than stiff with the great folk about them. 1912 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Priscilla's Spies x. 117 I find that she's quite dropped Christian Science and is frightfully keen on Woman's Suffrage. That's always the way with her. 1982 F. McGuinness Factory Girls ii, in Plays: 1 (1996) 23 But remember one thing, if the worst comes to the worst, it's always the way with redundancies and pay offs that last in is first out. < as lemmas |
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