| 单词 | would |
| 释义 | ▪ I. would|wʊd|
[The subj. of will v.1 used substantively.]
The feeling or expression of a conditional or undecided desire or intention.
1390Gower Conf. III. 32 Bot yit is noght mi feste al plein, Bot al of woldes and of wisshes, Therof have I my fulle disshes. 1626Fenner Hid. Manna (1656) 58 Thou hast a setled will to sinne, but a sorry would, or a months minde to repent. a1653Binning Serm. (1735) 559/2 Your Woulds and Wishes after Christ and Salvation..are not the real Exercises of your Soul's flying unto him for Salvation. 1864Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 131 If all my ‘woulds’, dear Jones, were changed to ‘coulds’, I'd deck thy bungalow with Europe goods. 1876Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Poet. & Imag. Wks. (Bohn) III. 151 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would instead of to the fatal is.
b. With the, denoting desire or intention in contrast to duty or necessity.
1753–4Richardson Grandison II. xvii. 127 But so it will always be with silly girls, that distinguish not between the would and the should. 1831Carlyle Misc. Ess., Early Ger. Lit. (1872) III. 188 When man, hemmed-in between the Would and the Should, or the Must, painfully hesitates.
▪ II. would
pa. tense of will v.1
▪ III. would
obs. f. hold v., old a., weld n.1, wold; var. woold n. and v. |
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