英语词汇“to try a person's mettle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to try (also test) a person's mettle and variants: to test the spirit, character, or skill of a person or animal. Cf. to put (a person) on his mettle at Phrases 5.

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] > test (a person) > his endurance or resistance

to try (also test) a person's mettle1581

to put (also set) (a person) on (or upon, to, up to) his (or her) mettle1733

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. 139 Till the blacke oxe tread vpon his toes, and neede make him trie what mettle he is made of.

1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 62 If naughty boy do thrust a nettle Under her Dock, to try her mettle, Does rise and plunge,..Enough to break her riders neck.

1729 J. Gay Polly ii. v. 34 After that, young gentleman, I shall try your mettle.

1794 Har'st Rig ii. 5 Let nane tyne heart, nor hand refrain, But try their mettle.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. xiv. 273 He would try their mettle, for the honour of Gascony.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xii. 196 The many tests that had tried his metal.

1882 J. A. Froude in Longman's Mag. Dec. 210 Romsdal's Horn..will try the mettle of the Alpine Club when they have conquered Switzerland.

1957 J. Thurber Alarms & Diversions (1962) 346 [It] lifts the pallid pastime of Ghosts out of the realm of children's parties..and makes it a game to test the mettle of the mature adult mind.

1993 W. P. Kinsella Dixon Cornbelt League (1994) 45 Some..hot-shot handball player who wanted to test his mettle against a real athlete would badmouth me.

单词	to try a person's mettle
释义	> as lemmas to try (also test) a person's mettle P1. to try (also test) a person's mettle and variants: to test the spirit, character, or skill of a person or animal. Cf. to put (a person) on his mettle at Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] > test (a person) > his endurance or resistance to try (also test) a person's mettle1581 to put (also set) (a person) on (or upon, to, up to) his (or her) mettle1733 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. 139 Till the blacke oxe tread vpon his toes, and neede make him trie what mettle he is made of. 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 62 If naughty boy do thrust a nettle Under her Dock, to try her mettle, Does rise and plunge,..Enough to break her riders neck. 1729 J. Gay Polly ii. v. 34 After that, young gentleman, I shall try your mettle. 1794 Har'st Rig ii. 5 Let nane tyne heart, nor hand refrain, But try their mettle. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. xiv. 273 He would try their mettle, for the honour of Gascony. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xii. 196 The many tests that had tried his metal. 1882 J. A. Froude in Longman's Mag. Dec. 210 Romsdal's Horn..will try the mettle of the Alpine Club when they have conquered Switzerland. 1957 J. Thurber Alarms & Diversions (1962) 346 [It] lifts the pallid pastime of Ghosts out of the realm of children's parties..and makes it a game to test the mettle of the mature adult mind. 1993 W. P. Kinsella Dixon Cornbelt League (1994) 45 Some..hot-shot handball player who wanted to test his mettle against a real athlete would badmouth me. extracted from mettlen.adj. < as lemmas
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