| 单词 | to do credit to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do credit to (b) Often in to do credit to (also with indirect object): to bring honour to, to cause to be commended. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > gain credit by [verb (transitive)] > do credit or bring honour to to do (one's) honour toa1450 grace1578 credita1594 to do grace to1597 praisea1633 to do credit to1679 redound1681 1679 tr. Abbé Pageau Intrigues Court of Rome i. 24 The same Cardinal..would have less need to lavish the Revenues of the Church for maintaining of his rank, and doing credit to the Holy See. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 172 [A treatment] that seemed to please him highly, as it did him credit in the presence of his lady. 1768 T. Gray Let. 18 Dec. in Corr. Gray & N. Nicholls (1843) 84 Temple does himself much credit with me by this letter. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. vii. 157 God grant that I may do credit to it. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iv. xiii. 325 That your grandson should succeed in life, and do you credit. 1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir v. 167 For those three years he..lived a life of meditation that would have done credit to a student of Râja Yoga attaining Samâdhi. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vii. 160 She was no doubt straining every plate and stringer to do herself credit. 1993 Newfoundland Sportsman Winter 33/2 But with the liberal use of birch rind and creosote splits we soon have fires going that would do credit to Dante's Inferno. < as lemmas |
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