| 单词 | to open someone's mind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto open someone's mind (a) to open one's mind: to be willing to accept, to be receptive to; (hence) to open someone's mind. ΚΠ 1748 J. Hervey Medit. (ed. 4) II. 100 Opening our minds to the Irradiations of his Wisdom. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v. 196 Would it not be a refinement on cruelty to open her mind only to make the darkness and misery of her fate visible? 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. viii. 154 I hope thereby to open his [sc. the reader's] mind to a more adequate conception of the character of Philip Lindsay. 1910 W. Lippmann Open Mind 800 The professors couldn't prove it wasn't, so James was willing to open his mind to evidence. 1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-aid Acid Test v. 60 The whole other world that LSD opened your mind to. 1992 Face Apr. 15/2 Hopefully 3D graff will open people's minds to the fact that you can adapt graffiti to anything you want. < as lemmas |
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