| 单词 | to know one's own mind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto know one's own mind e. to know one's own mind: to form and adhere to a decision or purpose without vacillating; to be confident and decisive.to make up one's mind: see to make up one's mind at make v.1 Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > feel or be confident [verb (intransitive)] wit1297 to know one's own mind1658 to feel one's feet (also legs, wings)1889 1658 H. Crompton Pierides 46 Surely these knowing times and you scarce find A man that rightly knoweth his own mind. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iii. 47 Is it then so hard a Matter to decide? I thought all people had been acquainted with their own Bodies, though few People know their own minds. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 14 I cannot approve of hasty Marriages, or before Persons are of sufficient Years to be supposed capable of knowing their own Minds. 1778 A. Murphy (title) Know your own Mind. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. xii. 270 The report..that the young Earl of Etherington..intended to pass an hour, or a day, or a week, as it might happen, (for his lordship could not be supposed to know his own mind,) at St Ronan's Well. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 26 And others laugh'd at her and Philip too, As simple folk that knew not their own minds. 1888 Poor Nellie 299 It is to be hoped he knows his own mind this time, and does not intend chopping and changing about again. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 609 Pretending to understand everything,..and in reality not knowing their own minds. 1935 Punch 10 Apr. 399/2 Say, she knew her own mind, did that Jane. A regular humdinger of a dame. 1991 Whole Earth Rev. Summer 29/3 By combining representative feedback with an informative documentary..a community can know its own mind with a high degree of accuracy on the key issues of the day. < as lemmas |
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