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单词 to ask down
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to ask down
to ask down
transitive. To invite to come and stay in the country, or away from a major centre.
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1784 Hist. Julia Benson II. xxxvi. 71 This stranger she asks down ‘to Wiltshire!’ I should have had a very bad opinion of her.
1834 C. Dickens in Monthly Mag. Feb. 152 If I see him..tomorrow, perhaps I'll ask him down.
1948 M. Laski Tory Heaven x. 138 Lord Starveleigh asked him down to address the electors.
1978 A. L. Rowse Diaries (2003) 122 Q. knew Lord Alfred Douglas—who asked himself down to stay at Fowey.
1996 A. Stevens November Tree ix. 153 Rowena..always pleads pressure and busyness when Phyllida asks her down.
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