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单词 it stands to sense
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it stands to sense
f. it stands to sense and variants: it is reasonable, sensible, or logical. Cf. it stands to reason at reason n.1 Phrases 2d. Now somewhat rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > employ reason [verb (intransitive)] > be in accord with
it is to (good) sense?1552
it stands to sense1681
to lie near1862
1681 Dialogue between Oxf. & London (single sheet) (verso) Then let them Plot, it stands to Sense and Reason, Their Plots will be but like their Powder-Treason.
1739 W. Brownsword Laugh & Lye Down 22 I'll try; methinks it stands to sense.
1808 Satirist; or, Monthly Meteor Jan. 386 Do you think any but a d—d fool would take his eyes off his horses to stare and gape all about the country? Why it stands to sense it can't be.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iii. xxiii. 165 It stands to sense..as old Mr. Poyser, as is th' oldest man i' the room, should sit at top o' the table.
1909 Brit. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 52 383 Dr. W. Ewart said that it stood to sense that mere inspection of a child could not give any idea of the state of its inside.
1968 ‘E. Peters’ Grass Widow's Tale xi. 140 It has to be somewhere here. Stands to sense.
1997 B. Jacques Long Patrol xxxv. 217 If'n it's got a place t'come out, stands to sense there must be a spot where it flows in.
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