单词 | to have the grace to |
释义 | > as lemmasto have the grace to c. to have the grace to: (with infinitive) to have the virtue, goodness, or decency to. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 2 Haue the grace to consider, that teares do not become a man. View more context for this quotation 1706 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels III. 444 Only One poor Samaritane of the whole Number had the Grace to come back. 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 79 They had the grace in scenes of peace to show The virtue they had learned in scenes of woe. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend iii. 123 In the church..Will be represented a Miracle Play; and I hope you will all have the grace to attend. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains i. 14 I put my patronage away for another occasion, and had the grace to be pleased with that result. 1920 J. H. McCarthy Henry Elizabeth i. xix. 154 Henry Elizabeth had the grace to colour a little at the delicately administered rebuke of the goldsmith. 2003 Guardian 15 Feb. (Guide Suppl.) 10/1 The teenager has the grace to look mildly discomfited. ‘Ah, sheesh..’ he splutters. < as lemmas |
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