| 单词 | to find one's account in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find one's account in ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)] > benefit from profitc1475 to find one's account in1669 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant ii. ii. 21 You'l not find your account in this trick to get Failer beaten; 'tis too palpable and open. 1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons iii. 36 Wherein they expected best to find their own Accounts. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 231 I have always found my Account in such Method. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lxvi. 545 Gaul manifestly found its account in being conquered by the Romans. 1860 H. D. Thoreau Let. 4 Nov. in Corr. (1958) 597 However, he found his account in it, as well as I. 1923 A. W. Ward in A. W. Ward & G. P. Gooch Cambr. Hist. Brit. Foreign Policy I. Introd. 98 Austria would..not find her account in joining such a war. 1948 Geogr. Rev. 38 6 If in some seasons it [sc. British rule]found its account in Indian disunity, it can hardly be denied that in the creation of a great, if inadequate, system of transport and communications..it laid firmer bases for unification than had previously existed. < as lemmas |
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