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单词 to enter a person's name
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to enter a person's name
P11. to put a person's name down, to enter a person's name: to put a person's name on a list of names, esp. to indicate an interest in or desire for a particular commodity, activity, etc.; spec. to apply for a person to be admitted (to a school, club, etc.). Also to have one's name down (for).
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1662 J. Graunt Nat. & Polit. Observ. Bills Mortality iii. 31 Such other Ministers..had not the Authority or command of the Register to enter the names of the Baptized.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 336 He made me enter my Name in a Publick Register, with his Affidavit, affirming..that I was alive.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 495 The Oxford post-coach took us up in the morning at Bolt-court... I found from the way-bill, that Dr. Johnson had made our names be put down.
1819 M. Edgeworth Let. 2 Apr. (1971) 193 Lady Jersey..told me she would put down our names and give me some tickets for Almacks.
1821 M. Edgeworth Let. 30 Oct. (1971) 248 The Colleges are now so full that a young mans name must be written down 3 or 4 years before he can hope to get in.
1824 Examiner 397/2 Mr. Bolton put down his name for 200l.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxviii. 442 He sat in coffee-rooms entering his name in the great pocket-book, over and over again.
1868 A. Trollope Phineas Finn liii, in St. Pauls Mag. Nov. 249 As he passed the Athenaeum he saw his chief, Lord Cantrip... ‘I have put your name down here’, said his lordship.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 455/1 He entered his name as a student of medicine.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage cxii. 593 He put his name down to be a clerk in the ward devoted to feminine ailments.
1969 Guardian 20 Mar. 20/3 Lord Linley, seven-year-old son of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, had had his name put down for Eton.
1993 A. L. Kennedy Looking for Possible Dance 88 All we need is enough people to put their names down and we can start a credit union.
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