| 单词 | to make it one's business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make it one's business P9. to make it one's business: to undertake as a self-appointed task (to do something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > undertake or set oneself to do [verb (intransitive)] found12.. to take on (also upon) one(self)a1300 assay1330 study1340 to put (also lay, set, etc.) one's hand to the ploughc1384 intendc1385 pressc1390 to put oneself in pressc1390 gatherc1400 undertakec1405 sayc1425 to fall in hand with (also to do (something))c1450 setc1485 obligea1500 essay?1515 attend1523 supprise1532 to set in foot1542 enterprise1547 address1548 to set in hand1548 prove1612 to make it one's businessa1628 engage1646 embark1647 bend1694 to take hold1868 a1628 J. Preston Foure Serm. iii. 78 in New Covenant (1629) Let vs labour..to make it our whole busines to feare God and keepe his Commandements. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. x. 25 Though going abroad sometimes about her businesse, she never makes it her businesse to go abroad. 1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. 54 I have myself freely conversed with Mathematicians of all ranks,..as well as made it my business to be informed of the Opinions of others. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xiv. 213 The class of professional ‘lobbyists’,..who make it their business to ‘see’ members. 1946 ‘P. Wentworth’ Clock strikes Twelve ix. 43 ‘I don't know how she knew.’ ‘She's the sort of woman who makes it her business to know.’ 2006 New Yorker 29 May 28/2 Katz..has made it her business to upset that monopoly. < as lemmas |
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