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单词 to do by
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to do by ——
to do by ——
1. intransitive.
a. To act towards or deal with in a specified way (see by prep. 26). See also to do right by at right n. Phrases 1a(c).
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a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 51 (MED) Þenne do we bi ure sunne al swa me deað bi þe deade.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 213 If a man..doþ wel by hym as þey he were his owne childe.
1408 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 15 That he do be me, as he wolde y dede by hym.
a1500 (c1370) G. Chaucer Complaint to his Lady (BL Add.) (1886) l. 123 With right buxum hert holy I prey As youre most plesure so doth by me.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 29 Apr. (1974) VIII. 190 My Lord Arlington hath done like a gentleman by him.
1713 S. Sewall Diary 24 Apr. (1973) II. 711 [She] said Mr. Alford had done ungentlemanly by her.
1853 W. Howitt & M. Howitt Stories Eng. & Foreign Life 96 Both you and I, through blind, mistaken affection, have done wrong by him.
1976 Irish Times 15 July 10/8 A great many of them [sc. repertory companies] do honourably by their audiences.
1994 P. D. James Original Sin xv. 106 He had slipped away almost unnoticed and unthanked, leaving Matt feeling that somehow they had done badly by the old man.
b. In prepositional passive. Frequently in proverbial phrase to do as one would be done by.hard done by: see hard adv. Phrases 4.
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1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xiii. f. xxviv It were a charytable dede, to euery noble man.., to do as they wolde be done by.
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 54 Whilst forgetting that Golden Law do as you would be done by, they make self the center of their actions.
a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. i. 3 Everybody agrees that there is in our very nature sentiments of right and wrong; to do as we would be done by;..to clothe our bodies, and the like.
1865 J. W. Carlyle Let. 3 June in Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 261 You are so good about writing that you deserve to be goodly done by.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ix. 209 To do as he would be done by.
1916 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 20 Sept. 174 Ewes have been..‘well done by’ during the winter.
1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 108 You will..be doing as you would be done by, and the supper-party will be the merrier and more prolonged.
1992 Independent 4 May 13/4 There were other people who seemed to be better dressed, better housed, in all ways better done by.
2. transitive. To carry out (a particular kind of action) towards a person or thing; esp. in to do the —— thing by (see to do the —— thing at thing n.1 Phrases 6a).
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1721 C. Cibber Refusal iii. 44 Why; have you the Confidence to suppose I won't do the fair thing by the Gentleman.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Poupelin You must plunge the nether crust first,..and afterwards do the same by the upper crust of the Poupelin.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. i. 218 I can't pretend for to say I think Mr. Harrel did quite the honourable thing by us.
1890 Cent. Mag. Feb. 527/1 You know I've tried to do the square thing by you.
1945 V. Bell Let. 12 May (1993) 497 The D., seeing Edgar..waltz round gallantly with Ruby, tried to do the same by Grace, who simply sent him packing.
1963 P. White Let. 20 Oct. (1994) viii. 241 Trying to do the right thing by Fanny.
2008 New Scientist 15 Nov. 36 (heading) In principle, doing the right thing by the planet is fairly straightforward.
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