| 单词 | a too-late |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa too-late a. With an adjective or adverb, forming a (nonce) noun phrase, as a too-late, a too-little, a too-much. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity un-i-fohOE surfeita1393 superfluitya1398 over-micklea1400 overmucha1400 nimiety1542 superfluous1552 redundance1572 overflowing1574 overflush1581 overflow1589 overmeasure1591 redundancy1601 a too-much1604 pleonasm1616 overfloat1619 overmuchnessa1637 supernumerariness1652 plusa1721 supervacaneousness1730 supersaturate1860 too-muchness1875 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 96 + 5 Goodnes growing to a plurisie, Dies in his owne too much. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. ci. 399 And rather than in haughtines did fault in too-submis. 1637 C. Dow Answer to H. Burton 158 There may be a too-much even in the best things. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 346 [One] who complains of the Too-much of things he does not value, and of the Too-little of things he does. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 542 There will be a ‘too late’; not a final ‘too late’,..but..a ‘too late’ to avert that particular judgment. 1905 Daily Chron. 14 Apr. 5/4 We have suffered greatly in our national life from the domination of the ‘too-lates’; political procrastination is the thief of opportunity. < as lemmas |
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