| 单词 | to take it amiss |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take it amiss b. To put an unfavourable interpretation upon (an action, event, etc.); to take exception to; to take offence at. to take it amiss: to take offence. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be indignant at or resent [verb (transitive)] to take in (also on, to) griefc1325 to bear (a person or thing) hard (also heavily, heavy, etc.)c1384 to take agrief?a1400 disdaina1513 stomach1523 to take it amiss1530 to have a grudge against (to, at)1531 to think amiss1533 envy1557 to take‥in (the) snuff (or to snuff)1560 to take snuff1565 to take scorn1581 to take indignly1593 to bear (one) upon (also in) the spleen1596 spleena1629 disresent1652 indign1652 miff1797 pin1934 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 747/1 I take a thyng a mysse, je mesprens. 1595 N. Breton Marie Magdalens Loue sig. D4v Wee must not take it amisse, if we be left vnto the mercie of Gods holie spirit. 1638 W. Barwick tr. V. D'Audiguier Love & Valour 22 She told him, that her friends took it amisse, that one of his coate should so frequent her company. 1688 Pulpit-sayings 15 They must not take it amiss, if as they were misrepresenters then, they are esteem'd Misrepresenters still. 1780 S. Johnson Let. 30 May (1992) III. 263 You..therefore cannot take it amiss that I have never written. 1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. I. viii. 119 A Hottentot..takes it extremely amiss if he is addressed by the words Pay or Jonge, as the slaves are. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. iii. 59 You will not take it amiss if I take a cousin's privilege. 1938 G. W. Howgate George Santayana 312 Santayana's dismissal of all scholarly apparatus, citations, references, etc., was taken amiss by some critics. 1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled ii. 25 If it's impossible, then please just say so. I won't take it amiss. < as lemmas |
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