| 单词 | would say |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswould say P5. would say: intend to say, mean. Cf. sense 26b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > mean [verb (transitive)] meaneOE beholdc1175 spele?c1225 bemeana1300 amountc1300 willa1382 import1425 employ1528 intend?c1530 would say1564 understand1617 spella1661 1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge xviii. f. 172 What you would saye M. Iuell, I wote not, what you saye, well I wote. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 52 When I thought to sleep out all these faults..I found that some had stuff'd the bed with thoughts, I would say thorns. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 33 I would say eye, for h' had but one. 1704 T. Staynoe Salvation by Jesus Christ Alone II. vii. 179 They are capable of feeling (I would say sensing) the Execution of the Punishment pronounced upon them. 1891 Harper's Mag. Jan. 220/1 I would say that Mr. Pettingill has behaved very strangely—sending for a herb doctor. 1910 J. Conrad Let. Sept. in A. Ingram Joseph Conrad: Sel. Lit. Crit. (1986) 80 Generally I would say that your prose, full of merits as it is, wants ‘stringing up’. 2017 ‘C. Lauren’ Autoboyography x. 174 I would say my parents are more agnostic at this point. < as lemmas |
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