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单词 best pleased
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best pleased
P5. British. best pleased: most pleased, particularly pleased. Now chiefly in negative constructions.In early use probably not a fixed collocation.
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1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxviii. sig. iv Diuers will assent to that reasons, wherewith they suppose that he whiche is chiefe in authoritie wyll be best pleased.
1624 Earl of Strafford Let. 14 Aug. (1739) I. 23 I was best pleased to hear of that Commodity, being for all the rest John Indifferent.
a1687 C. Cotton tr. Martial Epigr. in Poems (1689) 561 To be best pleas'd with thine own state, Neither to wish, nor fear thy Fate.
1775 C. Johnston Pilgrim 122 The Archbishop and he have parted not the best pleased with each other.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvii. 277 The deputy shepherd seemed by no means best pleased with Sam's arrival.
1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes iii. 60 I wasn't best pleased, Mr. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death.
1932 A. Huxley Let. 19 Mar. (1969) 359 In Cannes, we saw H. G. Wells who, I fear, wasn't best pleased with it.
1965 A. L. Rowse Diary 8 Dec. (2003) 362 The old professionals lolling around, not best pleased.
1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 33 I wasn't best pleased to see her.
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