| 单词 | to take a person at his word |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a person at his (also her) word (d) to take a person at his (also her) word: (a) to accept the literal or apparent meaning of what has been said or stated, esp. as a basis for subsequent action; †(b) to agree to what has been proposed (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > accept as true, believe [verb (transitive)] ylevec888 leve971 ween971 i-weneOE takec1175 trowc1175 truth?c1250 thinka1275 believec1300 trustc1325 hold1340 trist1340 to give (one's) faith to (also unto)c1405 accept?c1430 admitc1449 credencea1529 to take a person at his (also her) word1535 credit1547 faith1576 to take a person's word1576 receive1581 creed1596 understand1751 Adam and Eve1925 buy1926 the mind > language > statement > assent > [verb (intransitive)] ensentc1290 accordc1300 to say yesa1400 senta1400 to say yeac1425 condescend1477 subscribe1531 accede1534 to take a person at his (also her) word1535 homologatea1649 to close with1654 to set one's seal1659 yes1820 yea-say1876 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xx. 33 He sayde: yf he be yet alyue, he is my brother. And the men toke him shortly at his worde,..and sayde: Yee Benadab is thy brother. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 17 Ant. Get thee away. Dro. Many a man would take you at your word, And goe indeede. View more context for this quotation 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. ii. i. 15 Old as I am I take thee at thy word, And will tomorrow thank thee with my sword. 1727 Coll. Epigr. cdlxii Take the soft sorrower at her word, and try How deeply rooted woman's vows can lie. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews (ed. 2) II. iii. xii. 161 One of the Servants whispered Joseph to take him at his Word, and suffer the old Put to walk if he would. 1800 W. Wordsworth Idle Shepherd-boys in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 72 James proudly took him at his word, But did not like the feat. 1884 Manch. Examiner 12 May 4/7 Our contemporaries must not be offended if we decline to take them quite at their word. 1907 G. B. Shaw Major Barbara Pref. in John Bull's Other Island 171 Those who pester our police superintendents with confessions of murder might very wisely be taken at their word and executed. 1939 D. Thomas Let. c8 Jan. (1987) 351 As you said it wasn't a call of life & death, we took you at your word and didn't worry. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Mar. b3/3 Skilled at not taking patients at their word, Ben inquires further. to take a person at his (or her) word (c) to take a person at his (or her) word: see Phrases 1b(d). < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。