单词 | at a person's request |
释义 | > as lemmasat a person's request a. at a person's request (also at the request of ——, †at request of ——): in response to a person's expressed wish. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [adverb] > in accordance with one's desire at a person's request?a1400 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 266 Þise kynges stille þei lefte at þe papes request. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 346 At requeste [v.r. requist] and prayere Of Perotheus..Duc Theseus hym leet out of prison. ?c1425 (c1390) G. Chaucer Fortune (Cambr. Ii.3.21) (1879) l. 76 At my requeste..releue hym of hys peyne. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) iii. iv. sig. e.iij He hadde made hym knyght at the request of the Cowherd. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 573 (MED) Wyll ye your rancour sese at my request? 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 3388 Ȝe sall, at Chastities requeist, Pas and exame ȝon thrie. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. v. 23 Iaq...Wil you sing? Amy. More at your request, then to please my selfe. View more context for this quotation 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 228 At my request..they let her go a drift. 1734 J. Vanderlint Money answers All Things 11 If all the Gentlemen in the Nation would lower their Rents, at the Request of the People, this could not answer the End. 1791 M. De Fleury Divine Poems & Ess. 239 You will remember that I wrote it at the request of your father. a1822 P. B. Shelley Ginevra in Posthumous Poems (1824) 232 Her maidens..left her at her own request to keep An hour of quiet. a1898 H. Bessemer Autobiogr. (1905) xiv. 196 He happened to see on the scrap-heap a large mass of Bessemer malleable iron,..which, at his request, was sent to him to Woolwich. 1955 Times 4 July 9/7 Whereas only lately, at the request of the Allies, decartelization in Germany was the order of the day, it is now again cartelization. 1988 ‘J. Norst’ Colors iv. 56 A lot of hostile black folk who didn't like The Man hanging around their house of worship even if it was at their preacher's request. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 Aug. i. 10/5 Eight ‘ghost’ detainees who were incarcerated at Abu Ghraib, but who were kept off the prison's roster at the C.I.A.'s request. < as lemmas |
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