单词 | all the better |
释义 | > as lemmasall the better a. Preceding the (the adv. 1a) and a comparative adjective or adverb to form an adverbial phrase, as all the better, all the more, etc., emphasizing the extent or degree of the change or effect described.In Old English alles adv. is more common in this sense; cf. variant reading in quot. OE. ΚΠ OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. iii. 109 Þær æt nehstan byð unnyt gewinn..on þam yflan mannum, & eac ealle þe swyþor [OE Otho ealles þe swiðor], gif on neawiste genihtsumiað þa wisan. c1450 (?a1370) Wynnere & Wastoure (1990) l. 297 (MED) When Cristes peple hath parte hym payes alle the better Then here ben hodirde and hidde and happede in cofers. ?1492 tr. Raymond of Capua Lyf St. Katherin of Senis (de Worde) i. iv. sig. biij/1 For thys blessyd ymagynacyon she serued hem alle the more gladdely, soo that they were alle a meruaylled therof. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 92 All the better: we shalbe the more Marketable. View more context for this quotation a1732 T. Boston View this & Other World (1775) v. 259 He..could not miss to catch scathe if all the better care was not taken to prevent it. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 182 By choosing an advantageous exposition, they can raise all the more hardy esculent plants. 1840 C. Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock I. 10 A man of his state and fortune could all the better afford to recognise an old friend. 1870 Ld. Tennyson Golden Supper in Holy Grail 180 He was all the more resolved to go. 1924 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 28 Oct. 19/2 Professional baseball might be all the better if the athletes would..make a few of the ‘old college trys’. 1968 Listener 13 June 774/1 There was a rock band that whooped it up all the louder, to drown the inevitable news. 1999 Independent on Sunday 31 Oct. i. 25/1 The failure to articulate the Irish perspective is all the more surprising given the number of prominent Irish-Australians in the republican camp. < as lemmas |
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