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单词 to think proper
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to think proper
c. intransitive. With complement immediately following (with ellipsis of object it). Also transitive with infinitive or object clause after the complement. Now chiefly in to think fit (see fit adj. 2b), to think proper.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 14096 Martha þuȝt il ho [sc. Mary] ne help hir walde.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 3426 (MED) Wherfore I rede, if ȝe thenke right, That we sende som messanger To Delos.
a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 190 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 87 Whan he þought tyme to daunce with hir.
c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 460 (MED) All þe ȝerne þat I may spyne, To spend at ale he thinkys no syne.
1560 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 51 As the said Edmunde..shall thinke behoofefull & expedient.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. iv. 19 Which..the bearers therof thought fit not to bestow vpon the sacrifice. View more context for this quotation
1692 T. P. Blount Ess. 37 I thought good to go to the Philosophers.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 322 Cromwell thought fit to indulge a new fancy.
1831 W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. The little narrative which I thought proper to put forth in October, 1827.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 477 The Athenians have thought fit to condemn me.
1902 Times 18 Sept. 3/4 The views which M. Pelletan has thought proper to proclaim from the house-tops.
1958 Phylon Q. 19 333 Mrs. Stowe illustrated the behavior Calvinists thought proper to Christians, abased before the throne of God.
1995 M. Coren Conan Doyle (1996) viii. 187 It was cathartic and enjoyable for him to let off steam and pronounce on any subject he thought fit, from horse-racing to photography.
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