| 单词 | to want a person should do something |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto want a person should do something b. transitive. to want a person should do something: to desire a person to do something. Also similarly in to want a thing should do something.Sometimes used as a marker of Jewish speech (see, e.g., quots. 1969 and 1973). [In uses by Jewish speakers, or in imitations of their speech, perhaps after Yiddish ikh vil (az) er zol (followed by a verb in the infinitive) I want him to, lit. ‘I want (that) he should’.] ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (transitive)] > a person to do something want1711 to want a person should do something1742 1742 R. Erskine Let. 19 Jan. in Serm. (1821) I. p. xxiv If you want, I should explain any thing here written further, you may let me know by another line. 1746 D. Brainerd Mirabilia Dei Inter Indicos 20 I asked them [sc. American Indians] what they wanted God to do further for them? They replied, They wanted Christ should wipe their Hearts quite clean, &c. 1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. vi. 80 I want you should give me a letter o' recommend to Pheladelphy. 1853 H. C. Kimball in Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star Suppl. 2/2 If this is your determination, I want you should manifest it by raising your right hands. 1903 C. L. Burnham Jewel ii. 18 Mr. Evringham wants you should saddle his horse and bring her around. 1949 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 30 Sept. 6/6 Pinochle is your passion and I don't want it should take my place in your life. 1969 B. Rubens Elected Member vii. 68 I thought perhaps you didn't want I should speak. 1973 W. S. Burroughs Exterminator! 3 ‘You vant I should spit right in your face!? You vant!? You vant? You vant!?’ The vaudeville brother would retreat shadowboxing presences invisible to my goyish eyes. 2012 J. Tomsky Heads in Beds i. 9 Wait up. You want I should drive the car back to my driveway in the Ninth Ward to wash it? < as lemmas |
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