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单词 to have one's reasons
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to have one's reasons
f. to have one's reasons: to have grounds, motivation, or justification for one's actions; often implying that one will not disclose what these grounds are.
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1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxij v He had hys reasons whye he did so, & was thought to haue had a greater foresyghte in thynges.
1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline xxxiv. 446 Neither doubt we, but that men of so great learning, and of so great antiquitie..haue their reasons.
1604 J. Godskall Arke of Noah sig. G They which goe in the countrey haue their reasons why they carrie with them such and such necessaries.
1675 A. Huyberts Corner-stone 24 There are good store of the best Physians about Town that are of the same mind; and they have their Reasons for it, which (upon occasion) they will produce: I also have my Reasons.
1721 C. Cibber Refusal i. 19 I beg you take no notice to Sophronia of my being in Town: I have my Reasons for it.
1797 S. J. Arnold Shipwreck i. ii. 9 You have your reasons, no doubt.
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. v. 77 Celia..had her reasons for persevering, though she was beginning to be a little afraid.
1904 Pall Mall Mag. 32 455/2 ‘Do you think he did it?’ ‘Oh yes,..but he had his reasons!’
1993 R. Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1994) 139 ‘I'm going to Africa.’ ‘Are you? Why?’ ‘I just am,’ I said. ‘I have my reasons.’
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