| 单词 | there is no call for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere is no call for a. Reason, need, occasion. Frequently with for and in negative constructions, as there is no call for. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > a duty or moral necessity needOE deedc1400 necessitya1500 office1534 work (also duty) of necessitya1602 incumbency?1608 remorsea1616 incumbence1684 call1704 commitment1837 calling1857 geis1965 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 377 He assured them..‘that they had a very lawful Call to take upon them the supreme Authority of the Nation’. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 275 What Call? What Occasion? much less, What Necessity I was in to go. 1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France I. xvi. 132 There was no call for his interfering in the business. 1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxii I don't know what call she had to blush so when she made her curtsey. 1895 K. Chopin Bayou Folk 44 I done said he did n' have no call to come heah, caperin' roun' Miss 'Phrasie. 1938 C. Muncaster Student's Bk. Water-colour Painting vi. 43 Since accidentals in reflections are much more concrete than in skies, the call for wet treatment is much less. 1951 S. H. Bell December Bride iii. vii. 259 Dammit, men, there's no call for that, no call at all. 1995 N. Blincoe Acid Casuals xxii. 173 He was still with her..although there was no call for him to be. < as lemmas |
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