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单词 to know what something is
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to know what something is
d. to know what something is: to be conscious of what something implies or may involve; (hence) to have had experience of something. Usually with anticipatory it and infinitive. Also with other verbs and expressions, such as remember, have an idea of.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > be versed or skilled [verb (intransitive)]
to have the way (also ways)?1520
to know what something is1535
practise1542
skilla1586
to be one's craftsmaster1594
to know the ropes1802
to know one's way around1861
to know (something) backwards1904
to know one's stuff1927
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > experience > be experienced [phrase]
to know the ginc1530
to know what something is1535
to find (know, etc.) the length (also measure) of a person's foot1580
to know one's way around1814
to be more than seven1896
to know whereof one speaks (or writes, etc.)1922
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xii. B They shalbe subdued vnto him, yt they maye knowe what it is to serue me, & to serue the kyngdomes of the worlde.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ev Thou know'st not what it is, With iauelings point a churlish swine to goare. View more context for this quotation
1608 M. Kellison Reply Sotcliffes Answer Ep. Ded. sig. a v Till miserie had taught the prodigal Sonne wit, he neuer knew what it was to liue at home in his Fathers howse.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 26. ¶7 Though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy.
1860 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers ii, in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 383 As for the first night at a strange school, we most of us remember what that is.
1885 G. B. Shaw Let. 29 Dec. (1965) I. 149 Paquito has not the remotest idea of what it is to be exploited on the piece-work system by newspapers.
1901 W. R. H. Trowbridge Lett. Mother to Elizabeth xiii. 58 To know what dust is, you must come to Switzerland in August; the road was like driving through sand.
1974 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 98 My great-grandfather John Is Remembering what it is to conquer country: Brush soil upturned, Thin-legged black people who would show you fruit.
2001 Times 6 July (Goodwood Festival Suppl.) 15/1 The drivers who race their cars up the Hill might touch speeds of 160mph but they do not know what excitement is.
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