methinks

英語

其他形式

• methinketh, me thinketh, me thinks, mythinks, my thinks

詞源

源自me (代詞賓語形式) + think (「似乎」)。在近代英語中，被威廉·莎士比亞使用了不下150次，在中古英語中，傑弗里·喬叟使用me thinketh，而在古英語中，阿爾弗雷德大帝使用mē þyncþ。 對比德語中的等價用法mich dünkt。

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/mɪˈθɪŋks/

• （美國）音頻

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縮約形

methinks (過去式 methought)

1. (古舊或幽默) 我覺得；在我看來；私以為
   • ~870-899, Alfred the Great:

     Forthy me thincth betre,
     gif iow swæ thincth,
     thæt we eac sumæ bec

   • ~1350-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer:

     Me thinketh accordant to reason
     To telle you al the condicion

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, King Richard III: III, i

     methinks the truth should live from age to age,

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III, scene II

     The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

   • 1862 February, George Augustus [Henry] Sala, 「The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous; a Narrative in Plain English, […] Chapter the Fourth. My Grandmother Dies, and I am Left Alone, without So Much as a Name.」, 出自 George Augustus Sala 編, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, 卷 IV, London: Office of "Temple Bar," 122 Fleet Street; Ward and Lock, 158 Fleet Street; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, →OCLC，頁號 304:

     And then methought my dream changed, and two Great Giants with heading-axes came striding over the bed, […]

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2003, Arrested Development, "Bringing Up Buster":

     Dr. Tobias Funke: Methinks a cupid I shall play.

參見

• methought (古舊)
• meseems (棄用)
• mehopes

參考

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), 「methinks」, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd版, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8