单词 | to call one's own |
释义 | > as lemmasto call (a thing) one's own a. to call (a thing) one's own: to lay claim to; to regard as belonging to oneself (alone).See also to call one's soul one's own at soul n. Phrases 3c. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > own [verb (transitive)] > regard as one's own to call (a thing) one's own1517 1517 R. Fox tr. Rule Seynt Benet xxxiii. sig. E.i All thynges must be vnto them incommune,..Nother any of theym shall call, any thynge hir owne, or presume or suppose anye thynge to be hir owne [L. ne quisquam suum aliquid dicat vel praesumat]. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 149 Nothing can we call our owne, but death: And that small modle of the barren earth, Which serues as paste, and couer to our bones. View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 455 My Robe, And my Integrity to Heauen, is all, I dare now call mine owne . View more context for this quotation 1683 Dutch Rogue 89 Not only to be brought to the Condition of a Slave,..but at the same time to be deprived of all he could call his own in the World. 1729 B. Franklin in Amer. Weekly Mercury 18 Feb. 1/2 I have all the Trouble and Pesterment of Children, without the Pleasure of—calling them my own. 1761 E. Gibbon Jrnl. 11 Jan. (1929) 21 I had hardly a moment I could call my own. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iv. 93 She daren't call her soul her own. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 104 The first place which he could call his own. 1930 A. Huxley Let. 18 Oct. (1969) 343 I've really had very little time to call my own. 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy iii. 53 Not a friend in Whitehall or Washington to call his own. 1999 L. Morris & V. Rauseo Room with View in Best of Frasier 111 All I ever asked for was one room. A little corner I could call my own. < as lemmas |
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