| 单词 | think twice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto think twice g. intransitive. to think twice: (a) to give particularly careful consideration to something; also in the proverb think twice, then speak and variants; (b) (with about) to hesitate, change one's mind (about), decide against (an action); (c) (with about in a negative context) (not) to take notice of or worry about. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] haltc825 flecchec1300 waverc1315 flickerc1325 wag1387 swervea1400 floghter1521 stacker1526 to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530 wave1532 stagger1533 to hang in the wind1536 to waver as, like, with the wind1548 mammer1554 sway1563 dodge1568 erch1584 suspend1585 float1598 swag1608 hoverc1620 hesitate1623 vacillate1623 fluctuate1634 demur1641 balance1656 to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674 to stand shall I, shall I1674 to go shill-I shall-I1700 to stand at shilly-shally1700 to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734 whiffle1737 dilly-dally1740 to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751 oscillate1771 shilly-shally1782 dacker1817 librate1822 humdrum1825 swing1833 (to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848 to back and fill1854 haver1866 wobble1867 shaffle1873 dicker1879 to be on the weigh-scales1886 waffle1894 to think twice1898 to teeter on the brink1902 dither1908 vagulate1918 pern1920 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute about [verb (transitive)] stagger1555 hesitate1623 to think twice1936 1623 W. Painter Chaucer New Painted sig. B 1v Thinke twise, then speak, the old Prouerbe doth say. 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? vii. 277 You thinke twice before you speake, and may be demanded twice before you answer. 1728 J. Smedley Gulliveriana 273 He despis'd what was wrong, and abus'd what was right: Had a Knack to laugh luckily, never thought twice. 1825 L. M. Child Rebels xvii. 233 In the days of my youth, a single lady would have thought twice before she undertook any thing so grossly improper. 1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer iii. 119 He thinks twice before he commits himself. 1902 E. Hubbard in Philistine May 192 Think twice before you speak and then talk to yourself. 1910 G. F. Hill in Archaeologia 62 140 Had I come across this MS. at the beginning of my search, I should have thought twice before going on. 1936 W. H. S. Smith Let. 21 Nov. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 43 When they find that I am neither a Blue..nor a bridge-player, they may think twice about offering the appointment to me. 1955 M. Hastings Cork & Serpent v. 67 Don't worry. Nobody here thinks twice about me. 1981 P. Salway Roman Brit. 705 This must make us think twice before attributing reasons to any funerary or religious practice from the ancient world for which we have no written evidence. 2002 L. Olsen Girl Imagined by Chance 175 When you were young, we didn't think twice about putting you in the backseat of the car and just taking off. to think twice e. to think twice: to consider a matter a second time (before deciding or acting); to deliberate. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)] thinkOE thinkOE bethinka1200 umthinka1300 to have mind ofc1300 casta1340 studya1375 delivera1382 to chew the cudc1384 to take advisementa1393 stema1400 compassc1400 advisec1405 deliberc1405 to make it wisec1405 to take deliberationc1405 enter?a1413 riddlec1426 hovec1440 devise?c1450 to study by (also in) oneself?c1450 considerc1460 porec1500 regard1523 deliberate1543 to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546 contemplate1560 consult1565 perpend1568 vise1568 to consider of1569 weigh1573 ruminate1574 dascanc1579 to lay to (one's) heart1588 pondera1593 debate1594 reflect1596 comment1597 perponder1599 revolvea1600 rumine1605 consider on, upon1606 to think twice1623 reflex1631 spell1645 ponderatea1652 to turn about1725 to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736 to wake over1771 incubatea1847 mull1857 fink1888 1623 W. Painter in Oxf. Dict. Eng. Proverbs (1970) 263/1 Thinke twise, then speak, the old Prouerbe doth say. 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? vii. 277 You thinke twice before you speake, and may be demanded twice before you answer. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 180 If a fule may gie a wise man a counsel, I wad hae him think twice or he mells wi' Knockdunder. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. viii. 147 I saw in her countenance a something that made me think twice ere I decided. 1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 56 Do not think twice about it..but say ‘No’. 1890 Spectator 27 Dec. 932/1 He may..think twice before he formally undertakes so unremunerative a struggle. 1910 G. F. Hill in Archaeologia 62 140 I confess that had I come across this MS. at the beginning of my search, I should have thought twice before going on. 1934 C. Carmer in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iii. ii. 506 Chillun..think twict befo' yuh speak onct. 1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. i. 137 ‘Seems like Hitler's thinking twicet,’ said a gentleman behind him. < as lemmas |
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