单词 | to do right with |
释义 | > as lemmasto do right with (a person) (i) to treat (a person) justly or fairly; to act dutifully towards. In Old English also †to do right with (a person).In modern use right may sometimes be interpreted as an adverb. ΚΠ OE Agreement between Abp. Æðelnoð & Toki (Sawyer 1464) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 154 Se arcebiscop..sæde þæt he riht wið hine gedon hæfde þæt he sylf him for ðam cwyde secgean wolde. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6258 Ȝiff he doþ þe laȝhe. & rihht Þa wurrþ he þær þin broþerr. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1256 Heo was swa swiðe wel bi-þouht, þat ælche monne heo dude riht [c1300 Otho riþt]. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) i. ii. 3 Come fast before the Juge, and he shal do the ryght. a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women i. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 89 What ableness have you to do her right then In maintenance fitting her birth and vertues? 1787 ‘Polly Pindar’ Mousiad i. (title page) Let me see wherein My Pen hath wrong'd him: if it do him Right, Then he hath wrong'd himself. 1842 R. Browning Give a Rouse in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics ii. i King Charles, and who'll do him right now? 1879 H. N. Brown Sunday Stories xiv. 180 He did not rebel against these misfortunes which he could not cure, but submitted quietly to all his afflictions, believing that God would do him right in the end. 1919 H. Whitehead Business Career Peter Flint xv. 285 At this Henry gave me a card to a firm of furniture dealers and said if I gave it to them they would do me right. 1973 Jet 15 Mar. 50/2 I'll play all right but I just want that man to do me right. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iv. ii. 358 ‘Motherfucker better do me right,’ she said to a dark-haired girl. < as lemmas |
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