| 单词 | think twice, then speak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthink twice, then speak 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. < as lemmas |
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