| 单词 | to write down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto write down to write down 1. transitive. To set down (words, thoughts, information, etc.) in writing; to express or record (something) in written form; to make a note of (something); to jot down. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > set down in writing adighteOE to set on writea900 dightc1000 writeOE brevea1225 layc1330 indite1340 take1418 annote1449 printa1450 scribe1465 redact?a1475 reduce1485 letter1504 recite1523 to commit to writing (also paper)1529 pen1530 reduce?1533 token up1535 scripture1540 titulea1550 to set down1562 quote1573 to put down1574 paper1594 to write down1594 apprehend1611 fix1630 exarate1656 depose1668 put1910 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iv. 3 Write downe thy minde bewray thy meaning so. View more context for this quotation c1595 First Pt. Reign Richard II (1929) iii. 54 You & I will heere shadowe or selues & writ downe ther speches. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 560 Things knowne betwixt vs three, Ile write you downe. View more context for this quotation 1682 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 40 He gives out wool to scrubleing and writes itt down. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 155. ⁋2 I will..write down all they say to me. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. Introd. p. xi For the Purpose of writing down his Life from his own Mouth. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xvii. 161 I write down these opinions, not because I believe that [etc.]. 1891 W. Briggs & G. H. Bryan Elements Coordinate Geom.: Pt. 1 143 This enables us to write down at once the equation. 1983 C. Voigt Callender Papers (1989) xi. 157 He took out a little notebook and apologized, ‘I'll never remember if I don't write it down.’ 2015 N. Carr Glass Cage (2016) i. 10 Explicit knowledge, which is also known as declarative knowledge, is the stuff you can actually write down: how to change a flat tire [etc.]. 2. transitive (reflexive). With complement. To call oneself or make oneself appear to be a specified thing. Cf. sense Phrases 2a(b). ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. ii. 73 O that he were here to write me downe an asse! View more context for this quotation 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 222 We did thinke it writ downe in our dutie To let you knowe of it. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. ii. 6 It can be nothing but his grosse ignorance in this kind of Arithmetick that shall embolden him to write himself down gainer and not me. 1854 C. J. Lever Dodd Family Abroad xvi. 138 It's like writing yourself down Goth at once to oppose these. 1934 H. L. Beales & R. S. Lambert Mem. Unemployed 60 I looked at myself in the mirror and wrote myself down as a ghastly failure. 2013 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 8 Aug. (Arts & Life section) a6 I had to write myself down a skeptic. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > make one's way by writing [verb (reflexive)] > damage one's reputation by writing to write down1716 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade oneself or stoop [verb (reflexive)] > by inferior writing to write down1716 1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 40. There is not a more melancholly Object in the Learned World, than a Man who has written himself down. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. vii. 250 He has written himself down at a terrible rate by his last publication. 1844 John Bull 30 Nov. 759/3 Mr. James is in no danger of writing himself out.., but does he not think he is in some danger of writing himself down. 1890 Northern Echo 1 Dec. 2/7 Nr. Parnell has performed the feat of writing himself down. 1914 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 June 2/3 Reade, vain and apt to write himself down in the act of writing himself up, was all but consistently the worst foe of his reputation. b. transitive. To disparage or criticize (a person) in writing; to write disparagingly or depreciatively of. Also intransitive. Cf. to write up 5 at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)] > in writing to rhyme to death1681 to write down1726 1726 J. Swift Let. 27 Nov. in Corr. (1963) III. 187 However, one thing I was pleased with, that after you had writ me down, you repented, and writ me up. 1773 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebr. 1 Oct. (1785) 338 It was said to old Bentley, upon the attacks against him, ‘Why, they'll write you down.’ ‘No, sir,..no man was ever written down but by himself.’ 1850 H. Walter Tindale's Answer More Introd. Notice 2 This effort to write down Tyndale and his labours. 1877 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. (1886) v. 110 It seems..that no man's zeal is roused to write unless it is moved by the desire to write down. 1944 L. Mumford Condition of Man vii. 245 Bacon has been unfairly written down because he showed little comprehension of the important work being done by his contemporaries. 2020 @CloverWind_ 6 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Mar. 2021) He was written down, demoted from RB and yet he didn't lose heart and put in his performance. This guy has some heart. ΚΠ 1798 Monthly Mag. Jan. 49 [Wilkes] actually wrote down at least one administration. ?1825 Emancipation & Emancipators 17 You Sir wish to write down the government. 4. a. intransitive. Of an author, esp. of literary works: to adapt one's style in order to attract readers of supposedly less sophisticated taste or literary appreciation, or address a less knowledgeable readership. Often with the implication of a condescending or patronizing attitude on the part of the author. Often with to indicating the readership. Cf. sense 15d, to write up 4 at Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. vii. 311 I should be sorry to write down to their comprehension. 1861 J. Pycroft Ways & Words 33 Authors will learn to write down to the lowest standard. 1903 A. Bennett Truth about Author xii. 150 I had entered into a compact with myself that I would never ‘write down’ to the public in a long fiction. 1960 Guardian 25 Feb. 6/4 English writers seem to write down to their readers and American writers write as if addressing their equals. 2009 Australian (Nexis) 4 Mar. (Lit. Rev. ed.) 20 Hartnett has often said that she will not ‘write down’ or make concessions [in her novels]. b. transitive (in passive). Of a literary work: to be written in a style adapted to readers of supposedly less sophisticated taste or literary appreciation, or designed to address a less knowledgeable readership. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > weaken [verb (transitive)] water1529 emasculate1608 wire-draw1660 to water down1832 to write down1876 sanitize1934 pasteurize1951 saccharinize1971 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxviii. 243 Books..which do not dwarf the mind as a series of books written down are apt to do. 1958 I. F. Stone's Weekly 2 June 3/1 The pamphlet is written down, in the condescending, ‘Auntie Knows Best’ manner to which Mr. Acheson became habituated at the State Department. 1990 Families for Literacy Program (Calif. State Libr. Devel. Services) 8 This resistance seemed to be overcome when the materials introduced were simplified for reading to children and not perceived as being ‘written down’ in order to address the reading level of the parent. 5. transitive. Finance. To reduce the nominal value of (stock, goods, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures control1422 avouch1539 allocate1551 respond1588 score1592 carry1652 post1707 to carry forward1721 off-reckon1721 O. Ni.a1726 to carry over1745 rule1845 to write down1876 to close off188. qualify1884 accrue1915 net1947 gross1954 strip1980 1876 Liverpool Mercury 12 Jan. 8/3 There is...no dividend for the past year, and it is proposed to write down the capital account to the extent of £5 per share. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 6/1 The assets have been written down in a drastic manner. 1934 Accounting Rev. 9 121/2 It is not ‘conservative’ to write down the balance sheet valuations of depreciable and amortizable assets below bona fide cost. 2003 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 32/4 But goodwill is, at best, an unexact science and the group has already written down the carrying value of its fixed assets. < as lemmas |
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