| 单词 | a settled thing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa settled thing (or matter) b. a settled thing (or matter), used predicatively (often = something about which there is considered to be no room for doubt or question). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > [noun] > a certainty, fact soothc1374 certain1377 surety?a1475 probatum1594 experient1605 certaintya1616 factum1641 matter of breviary1694 definite1726 fixity1817 a settled thing (or matter)1819 monty1894 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 159 ‘I thought,’ said he,..‘that was a settled matter—they are continually together.’ 1839 W. M. Thackeray Stubbs's Cal. Apr. (1841) 305 She was told to call me her little husband; and she did; and it was considered a settled thing from that day. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. vii. 94 ‘Is it a settled thing between Lady Joan and Mr. Mountchesney?’ ‘Not the slightest foundation... She is not in a hurry to marry’. 1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford vii Still, it was not at all a settled thing that Mrs. Fitz-Adam was to be visited. 1864 E. Yates Broken to Harness I. xv. 272 The twilight had been a settled thing for at least an hour. 1868 H. Blackburn Artists & Arabs i. 7 At Marseilles, where..it is an understood and settled thing that every Englishman is on his way, to or from Italy or India. < as lemmas |
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