| 单词 | one should think |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone should think d. The original conditional notion is obscured in the phrases it should seem (see seem v.2 7f); one should think (now somewhat archaic and perhaps sometimes interpreted in the sense of 18). Similarly I should think (suppose, etc.) = ‘I am inclined to think (suppose, etc.)’; also colloquial as a strong affirmation in reply to a tentative suggestion, e.g. ‘I should (rather) think he did object’.In the last phrase (as used idiomatically), would is never substituted; in the second person the phrase is used only in questions, and in the third person only in oblique narration. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assent > [phrase] I will wella1470 I should think (suppose, etc.)?a1475 the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agreement [phrase] it is a match!1569 that's right1608 true for you1765 how right you are1799 them's my sentiments1847 I should think (suppose, etc.)1861 right you are!1862 sure thing1895 you said it1911 with knobs on1930 you can say that again1932 I should coco1936 I couldn't agree more (with someone)1939 that makes two of us1956 yes please2010 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 79 Hit scholde seme to a man beholdenge the fundacion of hit that werke to be rather of the labor of..Romanes, then of Britones. 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. bb.i It sholde seme that he was create of god but in vayne. 1577 J. Aylmer in H. N. Birt Eliz. Relig. Settlem. (1908) x. 465 (note) He hath divers Agnus Dei [etc.]... It should appear that he hath bestowed many, and these be the refuses. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 195 I should thinke, that these old ornaments are taken away. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 249 It should seeme that nature herselfe hath armed this people, in giving them the Iron Mines of Biskay, Guipuscoa, and Medina. 1741 Countess of Hartford in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) III. 324 So vast a stock of vivacity..one should think, could only proceed from a head and heart entirely at ease. 1775 C. Johnston Pilgrim 105 I should rather think he has a mind to finger its finances. 1835 T. B. Macaulay Sir James Mackintosh in Ess. (1843) II. 261 It might, one should think, have crossed the mind of a man of fifty, who had seen a great deal of the world. 1856 T. B. Macaulay Johnson in Misc. Writ. (1882) 321/2 It should seem that a full half of Johnson's life, during about sixteen years, was passed under the roof of the Thrales. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner vi. 94 ‘You remember when first Mr Lammeter's father came into these parts, don't you, Mr Macey?’.. ‘I should think I did.’ 1889 A. C. Swinburne Study of Jonson 4 That singing power..was not, it should seem, a natural gift of this great writer's. < as lemmas |
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