| 单词 | even just |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseven just 2. As a modifier: exactly, precisely; actually; very closely. Also (now archaic) even just (cf. even adv. 5). extracted from justadv. a. Of place or position, modifying prepositional phrases and adverbs. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adverb] towarda1300 justc1440 towards1590 in1709 in-ower1813 the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > nearly or closely nighlyOE nighc1387 throng?a1425 justc1440 narrowly1487 foot-hot1513 meeta1522 hardly1554 fastlings1568 nearly1569 neara1592 close1596 closely1634 nicely1690 narrow1697 snugly1800 snug1831 tight1888 c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 1123 (MED) The gyaunt he hyttez Iust to þe genitates [read genitales] and jaggede þam in sondre. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxiii. 259 He passyd iust by kyng Charlemayn. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxvij There was also a chapel iust by, wherin were burning innumerable Tapers. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 267 The Englishe Marshalles ranne abroade even iust to Parys, and brent Saint Germayns. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. ii. 2 Euen iust in the place whereupon the sunne riseth. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. ii. iii. 160 You haue now hit me iust where my paine lies. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia v. 9 They double all the Stuff that is to be water'd, that is, they crease it just through the middle of it. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 254. ⁋6 A beautiful young Creature who sat just before me. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xxii. 382 We are Butted and Bounded just where we were in Queen Elizabeth's time. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. x. 74 Here is a very creditable good House just by. View more context for this quotation 1804 J. Barrow Trav. China ix. 515 The tops of the walls..were just on a level with the surface of the water in the canal. 1843 N. J. Halpin Oberon's Vision 28 He deserted the path of historical investigation just at the stage where it was ready to convey him to the truth. 1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 25 319 The case..appears to me to break down just at the critical point. 1964 G. Lyall Most Dangerous Game vi. 48 Most pilots knew just where the Finnish radar stations were. 2009 Esquire Aug. 10/1 Our headquarters are just next to the capital's Carnaby Street. b. Of degree and comparison, modifying as or so with adjectives, adverbs, or quantifiers: equally or quite as ——.See also just as soon at soon adv. 8a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adverb] evenlyeOE evenOE evenOE egallyc1374 full outa1382 likea1400 even-forthc1400 unec1540 just1551 at once1588 upon the same measure1598 equal1623 equally1634 coequally1643 so1697 inasmuch1732 twinly1913 the world > relative properties > quantity > [adverb] > as much (as) just1551 only1782 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. xix Then shall you make one right line iuste as long as two of those vnequall sides. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 43 To lay a land is to saile from it iust so farre as you can see it. 1688 J. Smith Compl. Disc. Baroscope 51 So much of it as may sink it down just so low as the End of the Gage. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Decimal There must be just as many Decimal Parts cut off by the Separating Point, from the Product, as there are Decimals in both Factors. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 7 Finding that my expectations were just as great as my purse. 1801 W. Cobbett Let. 19 Oct. in Lett. to Ld. Hawkesbury & H. Addington (1802) iv. 40 They will be just as numerous as Buonaparté pleases. 1832 L. Hunt Transl. 242 I'd just as lief be buried, tomb'd and grass'd in. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 209 His object was to grant just so much favour to them as might suffice to frighten the Churchmen into submission. 1870 Sporting Rev. Aug. 116 You may sit next one at dinner, or at church, even just as likely as anywhere else. 1902 M. E. Francis North, South, & over Sea 165 To be sure, I mind it just so well as if it wur yesterday! 1953 R. M. Brooks & C. O. Hesse Western Fruit Gardening 101 The apple..should be watered just as thoroughly and as often as any other fruit plant. 2002 W. Rhode Paperback Raita (2003) 160 I would have been just as happy catching a couple of lamb kebabs and a Roomali roti from the street vendor. c. Of manner, modifying prepositional phrases, adverbs, and conjunctions, esp. as, like. Also of reason or purpose, modifying prepositional phrases and conjunctions.See also just like mother makes at mother n.1 Phrases 2b, just naturally at naturally adv. 5e, just so adv., just the same at same adv. 3.In quot. 1607 with sense ‘just as’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [adverb] ordenely1340 orderlyc1485 just1565 rank and filea1658 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] > intimately or familiarly > on very intimate terms just1565 hail fellow well met1577 au mieux1795 1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 84v Iff men speake not iust as Luther doth, then they are cursed and persecuted as heretikes. 1566 T. Drant in tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. C.viiij I would haue all thynges iuste as they were left vs by the Lorde. 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois v. i. 63 Nature workes at random, iust with you. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 159 To heare men professe,..give great wordes, and then doe iust as they have done before. 1628 A. Cowley Piramus & Thisbe xxiv Just like a Marble Statue did he stand. 1651 T. Vaughan Lumen de Lumine 20 It is just thus with the common Astrologer. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia ix. 57 A Sphere, which will..grow bigger, just after the same manner..as the waves or rings on the surface of the water. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 186 A very great number..offer'd all sorts of Violence to those they met, even just as a mad Dog runs on and bites at every one he meets. 1761 C. Churchill Rosciad 21 Just in the way that Monkies mimick Man. 1780 W. Cowper Rep. Adjudged Case 14 Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II clxvii. 202 He was in love..so was she, Just in the way we very often see. 1823 R. Butler Irish Tutor iii. 22 That's just why I came. 1841 C. Elliott in Invalid's Hymn Bk. (ed. 2) ii. 58 Just as I am—without one plea. 1882 Thirty-sixth Ann. Rep. Amer. Missionary Soc. 108 It will be in promise, and prophecy,..and victory, even just as Jesus has said. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 12/3 People say it was just because Gran lived so vividly that she flickered out like a candle come midsummer. 1926 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Spillikins x. 110 I wonder whether their contemporaries saw them just thus. 1956 H. Carter in First Person Rural (1963) ii. 16 It meant almost always a sweet if trifling present, thrown in for good measure even when the storekeeper didn't know just why he did it. 1967 S. Terkel Division Street xx. 333 You don't commit youself, just like you didn't commit youself to the bunco man of the old days. 2003 Australian 10 June (Brisbane ed.) 30/3 It is wrong to cut scenes from a film just as it is to rip pages from a book simply because we don't like the way something was portrayed or said. 2010 Independent 31 May (Viewspaper section) 13/1 Just for that reason, it's worth trying to get the mind round it. d. Of amount, number, or quantity, modifying nouns, pronouns, and quantifiers. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] rightlyeOE righteOE evenOE evenlya1225 redlyc1275 justicelya1375 justilya1375 justlya1375 redilya1375 trulya1375 properlya1382 precisec1392 preciselyc1392 truec1392 straitlya1395 leala1400 arightc1405 by linec1420 justlyc1425 featlya1450 rule-righta1450 to the letter?1495 exquisitely1526 evenliklya1530 very1530 absolutely1538 jump1539 just1568 accurately1581 punctually1581 jumplya1586 arights1596 just so1601 plumb1601 compassly1606 nicelya1616 squarely1626 justa1631 adequately1632 mathematicallya1638 critically1655 exquisitively1660 just1665 pointedly1667 faithfully1690 correctlya1704 jus1801 jest1815 jes1851 neat1875 cleanly1883 on the nose1883 smack-dab1892 spot on1920 forensically1974 1568 E. Dering Sparing Restraint ii. 182 And nowe what skilleth it whether it be iust a thousande mile off, or else want a mile or two of it? 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F4v Such as..haue either iust nothing, or else very little at all. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 323 Nor cut thou lesse nor more but iust a pound of flesh. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 7 Euen iust the sum that I do owe to you. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme i. vii. 18 There are just five regular Bodies. 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 281 They did just Nothing all the Day. 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. iii. 81 The Man in Gibbets..was reported, between Twelve and One at Midnight, to descend from the Gallows, and take just three turns about the old Barn. 1821 J. Q. Adams Rep. Weights & Measures 98 The troy weights..had then been just one century in use. 1883 Daily News 22 Sept. 4/5 It is just a fortnight since Mr. Gladstone embarked. 1913 Sat. Evening Post 24 Apr. 61/2 What fighting chance was there left? Just none at all. 1957 J. B. Sears & A. D. Henderson Cubberley of Stanford iii. xii. 278 He died on Sunday, September 14, at 4:20 a.m... Just thirty-five years earlier he had written in his note book that his father had died on a Sunday and at 4:20 a.m! 2003 M. Barbieri Org. Codes ii. 53 This is just the number [of generations] that varieties need..to accumulate the changes that transform them irreversibly into new species. e. Of time, modifying prepositional phrases, adverbs, and temporal clauses.See also just now at Phrases 1, just yet at Phrases 2, just that at that conj. 7a. ΚΠ ?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. K.iiv Iust about the tyme of hir husbandes death (as she gessit by the strength and workyng of the poysoun) she returneth to Stereline. ?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea sig. C.iij Then riseth the Sunne at. 5. of the clocke iust, and setteth at. 7. of the clocke iuste. 1608 J. Day Law-trickes iii. sig. D3v Em. doe you loue me? Lur. I faith. Em. For how long? Lur. Till death. Em. O deadly lye. Ile tell you iust how long, loue's bred i'th blood, Prospers as long as beauties in the bud. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iii. 12 A parted eu'n iust betweene Twelue and One. View more context for this quotation 1672 C. Manners in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 25 Mr. Cooper..actually began it, but just then fell dangerously sicke. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 59 Just that Day Twelvemonth you left me Aboard Ship at Gravesend. 1707 Boston News-let. 7 July 2/1 Just as Capt. Bolton came from Lisbon, the greatest Convent there was burnt down to the ground. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 12 When your Master..wants a Servant, who happens to be abroad, your Answer must be, that he but just that Minute stept out. 1819 M. R. Mitford Let. 18 Mar. (1925) 161 Just as we were at our merriest, in sailed Madam J——, like a tragedy queen. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iii. iv. 182 Just at that precise moment, who should appear but Mr. Stirn! 1916 Amer. Mag. Mar. 33/2 Just then another stream of water busted the window in. 1954 J. H. Giles Plum Thicket xiv. 193 ‘What time is it, Jim?’..‘Just on the stroke of midnight, sir.’ 2005 R. Asquith Love, Fifteen xv. 272 He's running away just when I need him. f. Of state, identity, or similarity, or of opposition or antithesis. (a) Modifying prepositional phrases, nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.See also just it at Phrases 5, just my luck at luck n. Phrases 2f. ΚΠ 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. iv. 176 They go about to make vs beleeue that they are iust of the same opinion. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 39 As drie as Stock-fish, and just such meat for flesh, as that is for fish. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon i. vi. 26 There is another sort just of the same bigness, but..milk white both in body and face. 1746 J. Spence Polymetis Bk. VII. xiv. 223 (note) Virgil speaks of a feast just like this. 1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. II. iv. vi. 140 The Fins..are in a plain country, while the Norwegians are in western mountains just similar to our Highlands. 1847 Launceston Examiner 12 May 301/4 Every farmer knew the difference between a good striped Dundee corn sack and a sougee bag, and there was just that difference in the comparison of the two classes of labour. 1900 School Rev. (U.S.) June 322 Just this happened in Latin. 1933 Mind 42 82 Proof of the actual existence of a material world epistemically depends on just these elements of confusedness and involuntariness characteristic of our sense-awareness. 1960 R. A. Knox Occas. Serm. 227 Many who value the name of Christian still find it reasonable to believe that he did just that. 2004 R. Dawkins Ancestor's Tale 167/2 I suspect that major new departures in evolution often start in just such a way. (b) Modifying noun phrases with the.For colloquial phrases with sense ‘the desirable, etc., thing’, as just the job, thing, ticket, etc., see the noun. See also just the same at same adj. 8. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 56 'Tis iust the fashion. View more context for this quotation 1662 S. Pepys Diary 17 Aug. (1970) III. 168 This is just the case of England at the present. 1693 J. Whittel Constantinus Redivivus 82 These plausible advices..prevail'd on him to Act in all things just the reverse of what he had sometime before been counsell'd by those who best understood. 1730 J. Chilton Positive Inst. 69 This rash, uncharitable, Hand over Head way of attacking, is just the very Picture and Pattern of some of your Fathers. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 229 Serve him with ven'son and he chuses fish, With soal—that's just the sort he would not wish. a1813 M. W. Roberts Duty (1815) II. 186 She would be just the girl for a soldier's wife. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ii. 22 St Vrain said I was just the man for their life. 1887 Century Nov. 97/1 That book's just the kind of thing for a man like me. 1948 Pop. Sci. May 175/2 Performance improvers of the hot-rod, short-manifold type..can sometimes make a sluggish engine wake up, while gas savers do just the opposite. 1998 R. Gordon Ailments through Ages 68 Chloroform was swifter and sweeter than ether, just the stuff for labour pains. (c) Modifying interrogative pronouns and adverbs introducing a subject or object clause. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] rightlyeOE righteOE evenOE evenlya1225 redlyc1275 justicelya1375 justilya1375 justlya1375 redilya1375 trulya1375 properlya1382 precisec1392 preciselyc1392 truec1392 straitlya1395 leala1400 arightc1405 by linec1420 justlyc1425 featlya1450 rule-righta1450 to the letter?1495 exquisitely1526 evenliklya1530 very1530 absolutely1538 jump1539 just1568 accurately1581 punctually1581 jumplya1586 arights1596 just so1601 plumb1601 compassly1606 nicelya1616 squarely1626 justa1631 adequately1632 mathematicallya1638 critically1655 exquisitively1660 just1665 pointedly1667 faithfully1690 correctlya1704 jus1801 jest1815 jes1851 neat1875 cleanly1883 on the nose1883 smack-dab1892 spot on1920 forensically1974 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Hh1 I can make her speak to me, just what I please. 1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. iii. 25 Does every Man make just what he likes? 1777 S. Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 6 Oct. (1952) 22 I purpose soon to be at Lichfield, but know not just when. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. ii. 12 The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished. View more context for this quotation 1855 Iowa Med. Jrnl. 2 223 Just how many millions, is a matter of no consequence. 1888 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Oct. 434/2 I disremember now just which shoulder. 1920 T. S. Eliot Let. 14 Feb. (1988) I. 362 Only a person on the spot knows just who these people are. 1966 N. Harris Artist in Amer. Soc. v. 141 Hawthorne feared the layman could never be certain just which attitudes were his own. 2011 New Scientist 19 Nov. 12/1 We can't all go veggie, so just how much meat is it OK for an eco-citizen to eat? g. In negative contexts in preceding uses of sense 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] rightlyeOE righteOE evenOE evenlya1225 redlyc1275 justicelya1375 justilya1375 justlya1375 redilya1375 trulya1375 properlya1382 precisec1392 preciselyc1392 truec1392 straitlya1395 leala1400 arightc1405 by linec1420 justlyc1425 featlya1450 rule-righta1450 to the letter?1495 exquisitely1526 evenliklya1530 very1530 absolutely1538 jump1539 just1568 accurately1581 punctually1581 jumplya1586 arights1596 just so1601 plumb1601 compassly1606 nicelya1616 squarely1626 justa1631 adequately1632 mathematicallya1638 critically1655 exquisitively1660 just1665 pointedly1667 faithfully1690 correctlya1704 jus1801 jest1815 jes1851 neat1875 cleanly1883 on the nose1883 smack-dab1892 spot on1920 forensically1974 a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 197 Wilt thou then Antedate some new made vow? Or say that now We are not just those persons, which we were? 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 6 Mortals know not just how Gods eminent Intellection and Volition differ from the formal in Man. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 346 Our Guide being something before us, and not just in Sight. 1816 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) II. 59 I told you..that I was not just so well. 1862 B. Edwards Rachel Noble's Experience 120 Not that a railway station is without its tragedies;..but they are not just visible to the passing glance. 1905 Poor Law & Local Govt. Mag. June 237 Here and there the fence is not just too well defined, and..a Parish Council may..get occasionally on the wrong side of it. 1933 I. Gershwin Till Then (sheet music) 4 I don't know just what it is about you, but where you go—There my heart belongs. 2006 S. Woodward Inconceivable xii. 71 It's not just as easy as writing me a check, though. even just ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assent > [adverb] > expression of assent > exactly or just so just1529 precisely1765 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. vi So haue ye the hole some of the howsholdes .v. hondred thowsand and twenty thowsande. Euen iust Go nowe to the money then. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. b7v Euen iust, if heaven fell we shulde catch larkes. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 24 O tis a verse in Horace I know it well... Moore. I iust, a verse in Horace. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 259 Iaq. Rosalinde is your loues name? Orl. Yes, Iust. View more context for this quotation 1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer iii. i. 38 L. You know laughing without a jest is as impertinent; hee! as, as—C. As dancing without a Fiddle. L. Just 'ifaith! 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 23 Treb. So I guess the Dialogue, Madam, is suppos'd to be between your Majesty and your first Minister of State. Lady F. Just. 1796 R. Bage Hermsprong I. xxi. 225 ‘I met the young man—’ ‘Sporting his ostentatious charity—’ ‘Just, my lord; the epithet is perfectly adaptive.’ 1798 M. J. Young Rose-mount Castle III. xxvii. 254 ‘Another! another, my child!’ ‘Yes; just, just like this.’ < as lemmas |
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