单词 | a thing to a person |
释义 | > as lemmasa thing to a person (or agent) 6. to teach a person a thing, a thing to a person (or agent): extracted from teachv. a. To communicate something to a person, by way of instruction; †to inform. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person) to teach a person a thingc888 meanOE wiseOE sayOE wittera1225 tellc1225 do to witc1275 let witc1275 let seec1330 inform1384 form1399 lerea1400 to wit (a person) to saya1400 learn1425 advertise1431 givec1449 insense?c1450 instruct1489 ascertain1490 let1490 alighta1500 advert1511 signify1523 reform1535 advise1562 partake1565 resolve1568 to do to ware1594 to let into one's knowledge1596 intellect1599 possess1600 acquainta1616 alighten1615 recommenda1616 intelligence1637 apprise1694 appraise1706 introduce1741 avail1785 prime1791 document1807 to put up1811 to put a person au fait of1828 post1847 to keep (someone) straight1862 monish1866 to put next to1896 to put (one) wise (to)1896 voice1898 in the picture1900 to give (someone) a line on1903 to wise up1905 drum1908 hip1932 to fill (someone) in on1945 clue1948 background1961 to mark a person's card1961 to loop in1994 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxviii. § 3 Ic þe mæg giet tæcan oðer þing. a1050 in Sax. Leechd. III. 256 Eac gewisse dægmæl us swa tæcað. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 99 Ure helende sat ofte and tahte wisdom þan þe him folȝeden. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4827 Ȝif ȝe nolle englissemen godes lawes teche. 13.. K. Alis. (Linc. Inn MS.) 3141 Bote he beo wel ytauȝt, Wiþoute skorn passiþ he nouȝt. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 24306 To techen þaim quat tai sul do[n]. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 36 Thynges that I shal teche the. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 38v I praie you teache me one or twoo kindes of Pilles. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. L8 Thinking how all doth flee Whatever we have painfully ytaught. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. vi. 108 Thou Hector to the Town retire, And teach our Mother what the Gods require. a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 133 Wrinkled beldams Teach it their grandchildren. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. x. 248 I see it is ill done to teach the cat the way to the kirn. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xii. 667 It was English literature which taught the lessons of political liberty, first to France, and through France to the rest of Europe. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 352 The sufferings of the Protestants had failed to teach them the worth of religious liberty. b. The subject of the passive voice was originally the thing taught; it is now usually the person or indirect object. ΚΠ 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 363 Upon the pointz, as we ben taught, Stant sacrilege. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16324 Qui askes þou, it es þe forthwit taght. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 13v As huswiues are teached, in stead of a clock, how winter nights passeth, by crowing of cock. 1637 (title) Romvlvs and Tarqvin. First Written in Italian by the Marques Virgilio Malvezzi: And now taught [= translated into] English, by H. C[arey]. 1745 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. 276 It is true..children may be taught superstition, under the notion of religion. 1825 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 190 I am being taught French. c. With the thing taught expressed by an infinitive (or noun clause): To show or make known to a person (how to do something, etc.). ΚΠ 971 Blickl. Hom. 43 Þa lareowas sceolan synnfullum mannum eadmodlice tæcan and læran þæt, hie [etc.]. ?a1000 K. Ælfred's Boethius Final Prayer (MS. B.) Tæc me þinne willan to wyrcenne. c1250 O. Kentish Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 35 Ne apostle ne prechur..ne hem tachte hu [h]i solde [etc.]. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2197 Ȝe beþ men bet iteiȝt [v.rr. ytaȝt, ytauȝt] to ssofle & to spade. a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) ix. 3 Þe north end of Ingland teched him to daunce. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15373 I sal yow teche him for to knau. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xvii. 238 His [the red knight's] wyly fyghtyng taughte syr Beaumayns to be wyse. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 342v For which we saie in Englyshe to teache our dame to spynne. 1616 Withal's Dict. 575 You teach your good Maister: teach your grandam to grope her duck. 1751 T. Gray Elegy xxi. 9 Many a holy text..that teach the rustic moralist to dye. 1868 J. Ruskin Let. in Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Jan. 3/1 Education..means teaching children to be clean, active, honest, and useful. d. Used by way of threat: To let one know the cost or penalty of something. Also without direct object. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against > let (one) know the penalty of something to teach a person a thing1575 larn1790 I'll learn you1822 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. iii. sig. Ciiiv & I get once on foote..ile teach the what longs to it. a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Cv/2 Ile teach ye to be treacherous. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 13 I'll teach you how to brag another time. 1778 F. Burney Evelina II. v. 53 She will..teach you to know who she is. ?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man ii. 33 Sam! is it? Confound him! I'll teach him. 1889 A. Lang Prince Prigio ii. 10 I'll teach you to be too clever, my lad. e. teach yourself phr. (a subject): verbal phrase used attributively to designate a textbook or manual intended for use without the assistance of a teacher.The phrase is derived from the titles of books in the Teach Yourself series, published from 1938. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [adjective] manual1504 institutional1765 textual1862 teach yourself1938 1938 M. Thomas (title) Teach yourself embroidery. 1960 G. Butler Death lives Next Door He was..going through the Catalogue issued with the Teach Yourself Everything Series. 1961 Guardian 4 Feb. 14/6 As I was taught in a teach-yourself book. 1978 P. O'Donnell Dragon's Claw ii. 29 I usually spend a few hours with the tape recorder and a Teach Yourself Russian course. < as lemmas |
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