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单词 me list
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me list (occasionally listeth)
1. impersonal transitive (in Old English with accusative or dative). To be pleasing to. me list (occasionally listeth): I please, choose, like, care, or desire.
a. Const. infinitive.
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971 Blickl. Hom. 51 Hine ne lyst his willan wyrcean.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 211 Lecturio, me lyst rædan.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 103 Þenne þan mon ne lust on his liue nan god don.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8119 Himm lisste þa Wel etenn off an appell.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15099 Þan kinge luste slepe.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 22601 Na creatur sal þan list [Trin. luste, Edin. lesten] plai.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 490 The lestyth nat a louere be.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 941 Þenne lyst þe lady to loke on þe knyȝt.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxiii. 108 Na man es forboden..to trowe in what lawe þat him list leue on.
c1440 Sir Gowther 499 Him lystyd nothyng for to play, For he was full weri.
c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 206 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 464 My gud brethyre, quhy lest ȝou le?
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) iv. sig. Aivv/1 Some whan they sholde slepe. thenne hem list wake & pray Some whan they sholde wake & pray. thenne hem lust to slepe.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iii. 48 I knowe alle thinges, that me leste to wite.
1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris i. v. sig. Bv Me list..This idle taske on me to vndertake.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G3 When him list the prouder lookes subdew.
a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State (1651) 49 When it listeth him to call them to an account.
1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 64 in Purple Island When me list to sadder tunes apply me.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. viii. 29 When at need Him listed ease his battle-steed.
b. Without dependent inf. (Chiefly in subordinate clauses introduced by as, if, what, when, etc.)
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb] > I wish or am disposed
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiii. §2 Ne him eac næfre genog ne þincð ær he hæbbe eal þæt hine lyst.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15344 Æiþer gon liðe þider him to luste.
a1300 K. Horn 918 Nu ȝe reste One while, ef ȝou leste.
c1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.) 243 Offer or leeue, wheþer þe lyst.
14.. Nun 298 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 146 There we talkeden as vs lest.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 519 Wemen..can wet Yair chekys quhen-euer yaim list with teris.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xx. f. xxviij Ys yt not lawfull ffor me to do as me listeth with myne awne?
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iijv Let hym come when hym lust.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 247 Licence to doe what them listed.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 518 This proud Antiochus shall doe what him listeth.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche vi. xvii. 72 Thy mortal life is but a brittle vase, But as thee list with wine or tears 'tis filled.
c. Const. of (= Old English gen.), after.
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a1000 Boeth. Metr. xxvi. 71 Hi for ðæm yrmðum eardes lyste.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11334 Whanne hiss fasste forþedd wass Þa lisste himm affterr fode.
a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) i. 71 No thing list þam þan of play.
c1400 Destr. Troy Prol. 20 He..has lykyng to lerne þat hym list after.
d. With ellipsis of go.
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c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 87 To þe holy land him list, & þider gan him spede.
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