| 单词 | not done |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot done c. colloquial. not done and variants: forbidden by custom, opinion, or propriety; badly thought of, unseemly. Frequently in it is not (frequently isn't) done. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [adjective] unthewfulc1050 unhend?c1225 uncomelyc1230 unseemlya1300 unseeminga1340 unseemc1425 untowardly1483 indecent1570 unbeseeming1583 uncivil1586 unbecoming1598 unbefitting1598 unhandsome1645 untoward1658 incorrect1672 indecorous1682 outré1722 improper1739 indelicate1741 unproper1797 pah1835 it is not (frequently isn't) done1879 1879 E. Gosse in Life & Lett. (1931) 126 We haven't the originality to think of dying. It's never done here, in our set. 1911 R. W. Chambers Common Law i ‘You know,’ he said, ‘models are not supposed to come here unless sent for. It isn't done in this building.’ 1926 E. M. Dell Black Knight i. viii ‘Oh, but you couldn't—you couldn't—live there by yourself!’ protested Joyce. ‘It isn't done, Ermine. It wouldn't be fitting.’ 1928 Observer 29 Jan. 22/1 Undergraduates regard the conduct of the night of December 13 as the sort of thing that ‘isn't done’. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 May 318/4 A first-class book made up of things which emphatically are ‘not done’. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 56 When it is ‘not done’ to discuss sexuality—as in many Western sub-cultures. 1971 P. Worsthorne Socialist Myth viii. 188 That kind of behaviour simply is not done, simply is not cricket. 1998 R. L. Fleming She's All That (film script, revised) (O.E.D. Archive) 14 The same reason we never eat in the quad. It's simply not done. < as lemmas |
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