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单词 old, former, later self
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(one's) old, former, later self
b. A person's or thing's individuality or essence at a particular time or in a particular aspect or relation; a person's nature, character, or (occasionally) physical constitution or appearance, considered as different at different times. Chiefly with modifying adjective, as (one's) old, former, later self.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > at a particular time
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. v. 58 Presume not that I am the thing I was, For God doth know, so shall the world perceiue, That I haue turnd away my former selfe . View more context for this quotation
1643 Let. Oxf. Scholler to Schoolemaster 2 Nay, be not like your old selfe, who did therefore detest the Liturgy and Hierarchy, because 'twas common to us with Papists.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 In vain he burns..And in himself his former self requires. View more context for this quotation
a1711 T. Ken Divine Love in Wks. (1838) 282 My duty of loving those best, which either in blood are nearest my natural self, or in grace nearest my Christian self.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. x. 66 If e'r, forgetful of my former Self, I toil to raise unnecessary Pelf.
1841 C. Fox Jrnl. 30 Sept. (1972) 115 Dr. Calvert..was quite his old self, talking on his old subjects in his old way.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table ix. 253 How pleasant it would be, if in another state of being we could have shapes like our former selves for playthings.
1910 ‘M. Rutherford’ Pages from Jrnl. (ed. 2) 268 The self of two hours before seemed to confront him.
1975 H. Fleetwood Pict. of Innocence x. 177 You seem quite like your old self again.
2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 July (Weekend section) 22 I think my younger self would be astonished by what I went on to achieve.
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