| 单词 | to mean mischief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto mean mischief a. transitive. To have as one's purpose or intention; to intend. In later use also: to be resolved or determined on. †Also with clause as object (obsolete). Now somewhat archaic except in to mean mischief, to mean no harm, and to mean business (see business n. Phrases 12). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] willeOE meaneOE minteOE i-muntec1000 thinkOE ettlea1200 intenta1300 meanc1330 forn-castc1374 intendc1374 ettlea1400 drive1425 proposec1425 purpose1433 attend1455 suppose1474 pretend1477 mindc1478 minda1513 pretence1565 appurpose1569 to drive at ——1574 thought to1578 hight1579 pretent1587 fore-intend1622 pre-intend1647 design1655 study1663 contemplate1794 purport1803 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxxviii. 118 Gif he þara nan nyte, þonne nat he hwæt he mænð. eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxxix. 128 Þa ongan he sprecan swiðe fiorran ymbutan, swelce he na þa spræce ne mænde, & tiohhode hit ðeah þiderweardes. c1330 Gregorius (Auch.) (1914) 133 Þan alon sche left þer inne; Non wist what sche ment. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 581 Sith ye woot that myn entent is cleene, Take heede therof, for I non yvel meene. a1450 York Plays (1885) 290 A! mercy, lorde, mekely, no malice we mente. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B6v The Cocatrice neuer meaneth so much crueltie, as when he fawneth vpon thee, and weepeth. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 114 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) And murther the poore and seely people, which God wot, meant no harme. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 100 Except they meane their seruice should bee made but the accessary. 1673 Lady's Call. i. ii. 12 Nature..never meant a serene and clear forehead should be the frontispiece to a cloudy tempestuous heart. 1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes ii. i. 11 Thou art only, Misplanted in a base degenerate Soil; But Nature when she made thee, meant a Spartan. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. iv. 25 Pardon me, Madam, I meant no harm by the Question. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. iii. 14 A poor half-witted Man that means no mischief. 1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling 254 I do not mean attempting to thank you;..let me but know what name I shall place here. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. x. 89 I meant no harm. 1831 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 234 He has had the foolhardy audacity to show his ugly face..meaning no harm of course, as he pretends. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables viii. 130 I meant no harm! Since he is really my cousin, I would have let him kiss me, if I could! 1882 Harper's Mag. Nov. 936/2 A gleam in his eye which showed that he meant mischief. 1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxvii. 206 I do not suppose she meant a trap for me, but anyhow I fell into it. 1891 J. Newman Scamping Tricks & Odd Knowl. vi. 46 I saw they were started on the road of mutual admiration, and travelling pretty, and that he meant calling again. 1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service ii. 22 Even to my young and inexperienced eyes it seemed that the attack [on the Redan] was never ‘meant’. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xvii. 196 The crowd had already given Jurgis a name—they called him ‘the stinker’. This was cruel, but they meant no harm by it. 1991 ‘W. Trevor’ Reading Turgenev i, in Two Lives (1992) 1 They mean no harm; they are not against her; in their confusion they become carried away. < as lemmas |
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