| 单词 | by one's lights |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby one's lights (a) The opinions, information, and capacities, natural or acquired, of an individual intellect. Frequently in by one's lights; see also according to one's lights at Phrases 8. ΚΠ 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. PP He hath his suggestions, felynges, and lightes. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lvii. 140 He trusted that Grace would understand this by her own natural lights. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 503 We may love and honour the intentions of these excellent people, as far as their lights extend. 1879 A. Trollope Thackeray 112 To Pen and to Pen's mother he is beneficent after his lights. 2005 P. Taylor Now & in Hour of our Death (2015) xi. 88 He got caught. Put in jail... He wasn't a criminal, at least not by his lights. He was in the Provisional IRA, the Provos. < as lemmas |
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