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单词 to have a mind of one's own
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to have a mind of one's own
f. to have a mind of one's own and variants: to be independent in thought and speech; to be wilful and self-assertive; (also, of inanimate objects) to be wayward and uncontrollable, as if on purpose.
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1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. ii. vii. 215 I believe this is owing to their Ignorance; for as they have no Minds of their own, they have no Idea of others Sensations.
1867 A. Trollope Chron. Barset I. vii. 55 A weak, wishy-washy man, who had hardly any mind of his own to speak of.
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady III. iii. 40 The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top (1960) 73 She'd think me an intelligent type with a mind of my own.
1976 A. White Long Silence ii. 19 You're not a Parlor dog, trained to bark when I ring a bell. You have a mind of your own.
1993 Guardian 18 Dec. 4/8 She had a mind of her own—she wasn't meek or mild. Not lippy, but a strong personality.
1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xiii. 162 My attention was preoccupied with trying to turn off the back windscreen wiper, which seemed to have a mind of its own.
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