| 单词 | to see about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto see about —— to see about —— 1. intransitive. To investigate what needs to be done with regard to (a task, problem, etc.); to attend to; to deal with, or take steps to deal with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > see to or about yemec897 to look to ——c1300 attendc1315 seea1350 to see to ——a1382 attenda1400 await?c1430 to wait to ——c1440 to see unto ——a1470 intentc1500 visit?1518 to see after ——1544 to look unto ——1545 attend1611 to see about ——1710 1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal i. 10 Well Dear Gentlemen, I must go and see about this Business; for such a Fortune is not to be neglected. 1777 J. Langdon Let. 15 Jan. in W. B. Clark et al. Naval Documents Amer. Revol. (1976) VII. 957 He is now at Boston seeing about the Guns. 1808 Farmer's Almanack 1809 (Boston) July sig. D Ladies, for mercy's sake, see about the bed bugs. 1839 C. Dickens Let. ?Feb. (1965) I. 510 Will you dine with us at 5—and see about a box without loss of time? 1865 E. R. Chudleigh Diary 4 May (1950) 180 The cattle are being brought overland and he has come to see about selling. 1932 K. A. Porter Let. 6 Mar. (1990) ii. 73 He will come back for a little visit, until he can see about a transfer from the Madrid to the Paris Embassy. 1992 E. George For Sake of Elena ii. 32 There's a fax due from Cambridge. See about it. 2006 S. Gruen Water for Elephants vi. 80 I'll..see about getting you another set of clothes. 2. intransitive. colloquial. we'll see about that and variants. a. Used to avoid giving an immediate answer or decision. Also we'll have to see about that. Cf. sense 23b(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > be ambiguous [phrase] to make one boot serve for either leg1533 we'll see about that1791 see1823 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xv. 81 ‘Surely she would be better at the chateau, if she could be moved.’ ‘We will see about that,’ said her aunt. ‘In the mean time let me speak to Peter.’ 1846 G. P. R. James Step-mother I. xv. 171 ‘We will see about that, sir,’ answered Williams, ‘but there are first one or two things to be settled’. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ O.V.H. III. x. 236 Yes—I don't know—perhaps I'll go with you. We'll see about it. 1909 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica 1. 7 She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: ‘We'll have to see about that, little Vee.’ 1973 Oak Forest (Illinois) Star Tribune 17 May 10/2 Next year? ‘We have to see about that,’ stated Gronsman. 2014 Sun (Nexis) 17 Nov. 47 It'd be a shame not to do it again but maybe it's just not to be, we'll see about that... I'll think about it. b. Used (typically either angrily or sceptically) to contradict or challenge a claim or assertion. Also we'll soon see about that. ΚΠ 1809 W. Dunlap tr. A. von Kotzebue Fraternal Discord iv. 48 Mrs. G. Well, my little miss, what is the captain's birth-day to you? Char. That would I tell him myself. Mrs. G. So?—ay, ay, we'll see about that! [Ger. So?—ei! seht mir doch!] 1854 Punch 21 Jan. 34/1 She says that she will sing at concerts only, but we shall see about that. 1880 J. W. Gally Sand 124 ‘I'll keep the books straight enough.’ Blethers looked at him in his lofty way which seemed to say, ‘I'll see about that,’ and then he went out. 1968 G. Weill To Bury Cousin ii. 54 Hilda. He won't even talk to you, Bert. Bert. Oh, he won't huh? Well, we'll just see about that! 1992 P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 170 So the John Wayne stuff is over is it? We'll soon see about that! 2004 S. Belding Winning with Employee from Hell iii. 43 I overheard him telling somebody that he absolutely refused to lie to people... ‘Yeah, sure,’ I remember thinking to myself, ‘we'll see about that.’ < as lemmas |
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