| 单词 | to take a person out of himself |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a person out of himself (herself, etc.) 4. transitive. to take a person out of himself (herself, etc.): to cause a person to transcend his or her worldly concerns; to distract, divert, or occupy a person. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (transitive)] skenta1250 solace1297 comfort1303 gamec1330 disportc1374 mirtha1400 solancea1400 playa1450 recreate1531 pastime1577 sport1577 entertain1593 to take a person out of himself (herself, etc.)1631 divertise1651 to take the fancy of1653 divert1662 amuse1667 tickle1682 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > distract [verb (transitive)] fortogglea1300 to call away1529 scatter1530 forhale1579 to draw away1586 diffuse?1587 to call off1606 divert1609 to put out1616 avoke1623 disjoint1628 to take a person out of himself (herself, etc.)1631 to draw off1646 divertise1648 to take off1670 dissipate1684 to turn off1741 to throw out1821 to turn away1848 1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 119 Rapture..eleuates mans soule to God, as it takes him out of himselfe, to liue aboue himselfe. 1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xxiv. 165 There came a Rapt upon me, so sudden, that it took me, as it were, out of myself. 1796 M. Wollstonecraft Lett. Sweden, Norway & Denmark xviii. 197 I cannot recollect any pleasurable sensations they excited; or that any object, produced by nature or art, took me out of myself. 1848 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 4 Oct. in Sel. Lett. to J. W. Carlyle (1892) 257 There are no bothering algebraical calculations as far as I went, but glimpses, as it were, into the ‘everlasting universe of things’, till one is taken out of oneself completely. 1890 Murray's Mag. 7 65 Love..took her out of herself, and soothed her sorrows. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iii. 301 I haven't enjoyed anything so much, I don't know when..they're so good they've taken me right out of myself. 1941 A. Christie Evil under Sun xii. 218 Poirot had..dwelt on the advantage it would be to Linda to have something to take her out of herself. 1974 R. Rendell Face of Trespass ii. 26 What you need..is some outside interest, something to take you out of yourself. 2003 J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello (2004) v. 146 See if you can take him out of himself a bit. < as lemmas |
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