| 释义 |
no-place, n. and adv.
[f. no a. + place n.]
A. n. A place which does not exist.
1929E. Bowen Last September xi. 131 To be enclosed in nonentity, in some ideal no-place. 1934L. B. Lyon White Hare 12 Now is the new page turned and the new light falling From the no-place of the spirit. 1958Listener 28 Aug. 304/2 Neither to accept nor to rebel Is that no-place which I call hell. 1963Colorado Portfolio No. 1 31/3 And in some noplace in some notime he would take out a tiny book..and write.
B. adv. (usu. colloq.) Nowhere; (in double negative) anywhere. Chiefly U.S.
1934in Webster. 1942Partridge Usage & Abusage 211/1 No place is illiterate for nowhere, as in ‘The jewel was no place to be found’. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) ix. 74 ‘Where are you going?’ I..cried out: ‘Noplace!’ 1969M. Pugh Last Place Left xxv. 187 You're going no place until Herb gets here. 1971D. E. Westlake I gave at the Office (1972) 192 We was in two trucks, packed in tight so you couldn't hardly sit down noplace. |