| 单词 | not to choose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to choose a. esp. with infinitive. To think fit, to be pleased (to do so and so). not to choose (to do a thing): not to be pleased and therefore to forbear. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > wish or be disposed or inclined [verb] willeOE listc1200 to be of (also in) (a) minda1325 to will well that1340 likea1375 to find in one's hearta1393 to have a minda1400 pleasec1450 set1470 to have a mind1530 care1560 fadge1592 please1611 choose1622 offer1639 to feel like1808 1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston i. 4 He chuseth to forbeare those meates. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iv. 45 He chuses to remain concealed. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 27 When I travel, I always chuse to regulate my own supper. 1794 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 253 The lot of those who will choose to go to sleep on the edge of Dover cliff. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 129 He did not choose to keep a clerk, who was not in his interests. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxvii. 257 Pendennis chose to assume a very gloomy and frowning countenance. 1853 Arab. Nights (Rtldg.) 269 He did not choose to speak to her in public. < as lemmas |
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