| 单词 | what make you here? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat make you here? a. transitive. In questions introduced by an objective what: to have as one's business or purpose, to do (as what make you here?). Now archaic and regional.Common in 16th and 17th centuries. Censured as if a Gallicism in J. Elphinston Princ. Eng. Lang. (1765). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > engage in or busy oneself about fanda1375 entermetea1393 deala1400 makea1400 apply?c1400 to have in occupation?1523 lie1546 entreat1590 to consist in1606 tirea1616 stickle1647 to be in the business of1873 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 10990 Þe folk...Thoght ferli quat wit þis he madde [Trin. Cambr. wondride what he was a boute]. a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) 834* (MED) Whyne ert þou & who, & what makys þou here? a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) 2051 (MED) What makist thou in this contre? 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges xviii. 3 Who broughte ye hither? What makest thou here? 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. C3v Alas good aged Sir, what make you vp? 1602 Kyd's Spanish Trag. (new ed.) iii. sig. H2 v Hie. What make you with your torches in the darke. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bb2v/2 What made you wandring So late i' th' night? 1677 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 399 The proctor met him and ask'd him what he made out so late. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 68 Friend, What do'st thou make a Shipboord? 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 247 If that dire Fury must for ever burn, What make we here? 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. xi. 265 What should my daughter make here at such an onslaught? 1842 R. H. Barham Misadventures Margate in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 151 I saw a little vulgar Boy—I said, ‘What make you here?’ < as lemmas |
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