英语词汇“to let well enough alone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. to let (or leave) well alone: to refrain from trying to make better that which is already satisfactory. Also to let (or leave) well enough alone.See also to leave (something) well alone at well adv. and n.⁴ Phrases 7 and the note there.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > refrain from interfering

to leave the field open1668

to let (or leave) well alone1722

to get out of a person's face1931

non-intervene1937

1722 G. Cheyne Ess. Treating Gout xlviii. 70 Whilst the original Disorder lasts in any Degree, and the Waters continue to relieve it, they may be used; but in all Cases, and Events, it is safest, and best to let well alone.

1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen in Pract. Ess. p. xxxvi When a Person is tolerably well, and is subject to no painful or dangerous Distemper, I think it his Duty..to let Well alone.

1792 St. James's Chron. 2 June 4/1 (heading) Let well enough alone.

1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. July 246 Why not avoid all this, as Napoleon might have done, by letting well alone?

a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. iii. 21 Why can't you leave well alone?

1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xii Tom was very near yielding... But Mr. Carroll could not let well alone, and unfortunately he went on, ‘Whom am I to believe, [etc.].’

1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines iv. 56 The early Diesel operator knew but little about the engine and believed in letting well enough alone.

1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 25 Leave well alone, Or your goose may be cooked and eaten to the bone.

a1978 S. T. Warner One Thing leading to Another (1985) 140 Just because she was silent and I can never let well enough alone, I asked her what part of London she came from.

2003 J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello (2004) vii. 184 In her restlessness, her inability to leave well alone, do they see something of themselves?

单词	to let well enough alone
释义	> as lemmas to let (or leave) well enough alone P3. to let (or leave) well alone: to refrain from trying to make better that which is already satisfactory. Also to let (or leave) well enough alone.See also to leave (something) well alone at well adv. and n.⁴ Phrases 7 and the note there. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > refrain from interfering to leave the field open1668 to let (or leave) well alone1722 to get out of a person's face1931 non-intervene1937 1722 G. Cheyne Ess. Treating Gout xlviii. 70 Whilst the original Disorder lasts in any Degree, and the Waters continue to relieve it, they may be used; but in all Cases, and Events, it is safest, and best to let well alone. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen in Pract. Ess. p. xxxvi When a Person is tolerably well, and is subject to no painful or dangerous Distemper, I think it his Duty..to let Well alone. 1792 St. James's Chron. 2 June 4/1 (heading) Let well enough alone. 1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. July 246 Why not avoid all this, as Napoleon might have done, by letting well alone? a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) II. iii. 21 Why can't you leave well alone? 1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xii Tom was very near yielding... But Mr. Carroll could not let well alone, and unfortunately he went on, ‘Whom am I to believe, [etc.].’ 1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines iv. 56 The early Diesel operator knew but little about the engine and believed in letting well enough alone. 1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 25 Leave well alone, Or your goose may be cooked and eaten to the bone. a1978 S. T. Warner One Thing leading to Another (1985) 140 Just because she was silent and I can never let well enough alone, I asked her what part of London she came from. 2003 J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello (2004) vii. 184 In her restlessness, her inability to leave well alone, do they see something of themselves? extracted from welladj.n.³ < as lemmas
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