单词 | make it so |
释义 | > as lemmasmake it so ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > confirm reported time make1829 1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 101 Eight bells are now reported to the quarter-master, and by him, to the officer of the deck; who answers, ‘make it so’; and sends a midshipman, to inform the captain, that it is meridian. The bell is struck; and two long successive pipes, from the boatswain and his mates, are the signal, that all work is to cease. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. xiv. 146 The master reported that the heavens intimated that it was twelve o'clock; and..I ordered him to ‘make it so’. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Make it so, the order of a commander to confirm the time, sunrise, noon, or sunset, reported to him by the officer of the watch. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 203 Noon was made; the captain dined on his day's work. make it so a. transitive. [Probably after the same Latin idiom as sense 55a.] to make it (with adverb or adverbial phrase of manner): to act, behave. make it so: see also sense 35f. Obsolete. ΚΠ eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Tiber.) (Junius transcript) (1871) xvi. 98 Ðeah he [sc. Paul] upaðened wære on his modes scearpnesse, ne forhogode he ðæt he hit eft gecirde to ðæm flæsclican burcotum, & gestihtode hu men sceoldon ðærinne hit macian. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxi. 203 Swa he hit macode on his life. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 27 (MED) Þe kyng..made it as þey were nouȝt wrooþ. a1586 Peblis to Play in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 178 Quhat neidis ȝow to maik it sua? < as lemmas |
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