| 单词 | as a matter of course | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasas a matter of course   Something which is to be expected as following the natural course or order of things.  as a matter of course: naturally; without question, hesitation, or second thought. Also  as the matter of course (rare).Now rare as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > 			[noun]		 > usual course, condition, etc. > usual, natural, or expected course matter of course1577 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > lack of wonder > 			[noun]		 > a natural event matter of course1577 naturality1643 1577    A. Golding tr.  J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians iii. 138  				In a Court of Iustice of the world, it myght well bee a matter of course (as they terme it). 1658    Mercurius Politicus No. 411. 459  				These things will be taken on, as matters of course in the Electoral diet. 1681    J. Chamberlaine tr.  G. Bona Manuductio ad Coelum  ii. 16  				And he that understands it not to be Matter of Course, and meer Formality. 1739    in  Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania 		(1851)	 V. 392  				He thought it a Matter of Course. 1749    J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 159  				What I suffer'd, I suffer'd out of a kind of gratitude, and as matter of course after what had pass'd. 1788    A. Hamilton in  Federalist Papers lxxxi. 319  				There an appeal from one jury to another, is familiar both in language and practice, and is even a matter of course. 1809    B. H. Malkin tr.  A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I.  i. xii. 111  				Having as a matter of course sold my cloak-bag. 1878    S. Walpole Hist. Eng. II. 525  				Protestants guilty of killing Roman Catholics were acquitted, as a matter of course, by Protestant juries. 1885    Pall Mall Gaz. 13 May 4/1  				He takes all his wounds quite as matter of course. a1911    D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox 		(1917)	 I. xiv. 233  				To these river wanderers, veterans in the unconventional life,..the unusual is the usual, the unexpected the expected, whatever might happen was the matter of course. 1954    C. R. Attlee As it Happened xiv. 120  				The King took it as a matter of course and was amused at the experience. 1983    S. Donaldson Gilden-fire 21  				Cerrin and Sill he included as a matter of course. < as lemmas  | 
	
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