| 单词 | far from ——ing |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(so) far from ——ing d. figurative with reference to unlikeness, alienation of feeling, etc. Often elliptically in phrase (so) far from ——ing (used when something is denied and something opposite asserted). Also interjectionally, far from it. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adverb] > far or very different from far1534 offa1555 the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [interjection] > far from it far from it1882 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. C.5 This maner is as ferre distaunt from offyce..that [etc.]. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxiii. 27 They that are farre from thee, shall perish. View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) xix. 116 Gods love is so far from resembling the usual sort of Friends. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 150 So far from imitating the industry of their ancestors, that [etc.]. 1840 T. De Quincey On Essenes: Pt. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 648/1 So far..from shocking his [the Jew's] prejudices..the error of the early Christians would lie the other way. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xiv. 221 It was in a far from unfriendly fashion. 1874 G. W. Dasent Tales from Fjeld 128 He was not far off losing both wit and sense. 1874 G. W. Dasent Tales from Fjeld 154 He was not far off being half-dead of thirst. 1882 Wicksteed tr. Kuenen Hibbert Lect. iii. 127 The truly religious tone..not unmixed, indeed, far from it, but unmistakable. < as lemmas |
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