| 单词 | what one would be at |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat one would be at e. what one would be at: what one aims at; what one means, wishes, or would have. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [phrase] what one would be at1597 1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie ii. v. 43 At what time their master enquiring at them what they would be at: euerie one of them propones vnto him, what wicked turne they would haue done. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. G2v 'Tis happy that some or other of this Few chances ever and anon to speak their minds out, to shew us plainly what they would be at. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. i. 6 Flip. What would he be at? Brass. At her—if she's at Leisure. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. xi. 59 We cannot always discover what the young Lady would be at . View more context for this quotation 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 95 That is very true; but not what I would be at. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 373 What would revolutionising Germany be at? 1895 J. M. Falkner Lost Stradivarius xiii. 193 My knowledge of Italian was so slight that I could neither make him understand what I would be at, nor comprehend in turn what he replied. 1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. 353 A skipper who knows what I would be at, And who likes the chink of the gold. < as lemmas |
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