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单词 to know by rote
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to know by rote
c. transitive. To be able to recall (a text, one's part in a play, etc.) exactly; to have committed to memory. Originally to know by rote (see rote n.1 1b), to know by heart (see heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 1c).
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > memorization > memorize, learn by heart [verb (transitive)] > know by heart
to can by heartc1405
to know by rotea1450
a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 5925 (MED) Alle maner of Spyces I know by rote, How in phisike they haue her worching.
1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. sig. a ij I thinke it mete that every christen man..knowe it by roote and with oute the boke.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 241 To knowe by herte the names, ordres and degrees of all persones.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. viii. 450 A kinde of writing with small stones, by meanes whereof, they learne punctually the words they desire to know by heart.
1652 C. Manuche Loyal Lovers iv. 38 When I know my part, let me alone to act.
1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iii. 39 Come, Dear Sago, sit down—and let the Play begin—Buckle knows his Part, and upon Necessity cou'd Act yours too my Lord.
1785 T. Holcroft Choleric Fathers ii. 36 Sir, if you knew the letter by rote, you could not better divine its purport.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xi. 8 Her memory was a mine; she knew by heart All Calderon and greater part of Lopé.
1855 E. B. Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note S. 602 Sozomen mentions a celebrated Ascetic..who..knew the Holy Scriptures by heart.
1864 A. B. Longstreet Master William Mitten i. 8 He told him that the next time he came to recite without knowing his lesson, he would correct him.
1925 H. L. Andrews & B. Weirick Acting & Play Production iii. 86 Once the actor knows the sort of play he is in, and knows his lines, he is ready to go about the business of creating his rôle.
1953 A. Hosain Phoenix Fled 178 I know the Penal Code by heart, but I still may have overlooked some tiny point.
2001 E. Kelly in M. Hickey Irish Days (2004) 97 What does an actor have to do? One time a director said, ‘Be on time and know your lines.’
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