| 单词 | to have a way of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a way of (c) to have a way of (with a gerund). extracted from wayn.1int.1 (i) To be in the habit of doing something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > do or be habitually goOE to have a way of1637 1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 10 I have a way of complementing better, To win thy love with comely garbes and lockes. 1662 A. Honyman Seasonable Case Submission to Church-govt. 34 In these dayes they had a way of using liberty enough, and more then was fitting. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 124 Sir, said Mr. Williams, you have a way of overcoming, that hardly all my Reading affords an Instance of the like. 1789 J. White Earl Strongbow II. 146 He had a way of quivering his head and turning up his nose. 1858 G. A. Sala Journey due North 185 [She] used to wear Wellington boots, and had a way of tapping their polished sides with her parasol-handle. 1866 tr. V. Hugo Toilers of Sea 125/2 The porpoises..have a way of biting the cuttle-fish which decapitates it. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. iii. v. 244 ‘The fact is,’ lazily drawing herself up into a sitting posture, and looking round explanatorily, ‘that people have a way of giving me locks of their hair.’ 1934 Hound & Horn 7 393 They have a way of missing out on emotional experience, either through timidity and caution or through heroic renunciation. 1970 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 70 2135/1 Bobby..stared quizzingly into my face; he had a way of sizing up his listeners before he spoke. 1990 ‘A. Cross’ Players come Again (1992) iv. 103 Husbands have a way of counseling caution. 2002 Nature Photographer Summer 47/2 Grizzlies and black bears both have a way of popping up in the most unexpected and exciting places. (ii) Of an action, process, etc.: to tend to produce a particular outcome or effect, or result in a particular state of affairs. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] kinda1200 disposingc1380 disposition1393 aptc1400 hieldc1400 remotiona1425 inclination?a1439 incliningc1450 taste1477 intendment1509 benta1535 swing1538 approclivity1546 aptness1548 swinge1548 drift1549 set1567 addiction1570 disposedness1583 swaya1586 leaning1587 intention1594 inflection1597 inclinableness1608 appetite1626 vogue1626 tendency1628 tendence1632 aptitude1633 gravitation1644 propension1644 biasing1645 conducement1646 flexure1652 propendency1660 tend1663 vergencya1665 pend1674 to have a way of1748 polarity1767 appetency1802 drive1885 overleaning1896 1748 W. Sharp Serm. preach'd before Univ. of Oxf. at St. Mary's 12 A grave and solemn Censure, pronounc'd with good assurance, has a way of making some Folks look Significant, that would be otherwise but inconsiderable. 1821 D. Webster Disc. Delivered Plymouth 123 We are not afraid of bullets, but treason has a way of taking people off, that we do not much relish. 1883 Manch. Guard. 3 Oct. 7/2 A policy has a way of becoming unrecognisable when it is administered by a man who does not believe in it. 1959 A. Nin Children of Albatross 168 Secrets have a way of corroding their containers. 1986 Dædalus Fall 12 Shared productions have a way of robbing an opera house of its artistic individuality. 2009 New Yorker 3 Aug. 26/1 Monotype Caecilia..had a way of reducing everything to arbitrary heaps of words. < as lemmas |
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