| 单词 | and more is |
| 释义 | > as lemmasand (that) more is c. Something of greater importance or significance. to be more: to count for more, to be of greater importance. Chiefly used predicatively. Cf. much pron. and n. 1c. Frequently in adverbial phrases introducing a sentence or clause as expressing something that is more significant than what has preceded, as what is more, †and (that) more is. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important moreOE firstc1275 principala1393 chiefa1400 main chance1577 forefront1589 principal verb1602 centre of gravity1718 avatar1859 main stem1900 Big Apple1909 prima ballerina1923 centrepiece1937 OE Blickling Homilies 101 Se þe gesælig bið mæg hine sylfne be þære bysene læran, & eac þæt gyt mare is, þæt hie sceolan æfter þæm wlencum ece edwit þrowian, buton him seo soþe hreow gefultmige. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxix. 257 Swiðe god ðenung is..þæt gehwa godes ðearfum ðenige, and swiðost ðam eawfæstum godes ðeowum, ac swa ðeah mare is þæt man þa heofenlican lare secge þam ungelæredum. c1330 (?c1300) Speculum Guy (Auch.) (1898) 739 (MED) His gostli siht is swiþe cler. For þerwid he may knowe..God and yuel, lasse and more. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 1 John iii. 20 If oure herte shal reproue us..God is more than oure herte. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 2356 (MED) He brent in a double fyre Of loue and Ire..But for cause loue was þe more He was aferd..to done offencioun. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. x I shalle not ete the, For thow sholdest hurte my tendre stomak, and more is, I shall this day haue better mete. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 107 (MED) Lorde, þis is not o days werke ner children pley, but, þat more is, in this shorte worde is includid all perfeccioun of Religiose folke. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. i. sig. A.iijv/1 Yea, and that more is, shuld by adoption make them the sonnes of God. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 222 To say I and no, to these particulars, is more then to answer in a Catechisme. View more context for this quotation 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 215 Ther is more in it, to keepe a prouince, then to make one. 1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim iv. 13 But when he speaks, his words are more than sounds, and have a sting in them which pierces the very heart. 1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid I. 130 The Griparts were never taken in yet, and what's more, never will. 1790 S. W. Morton Ouâbi Introd. p. vii Nothing of moment is undertaken without advising with them, and what is more, with the young men too. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere in Poems (new ed.) I. 158 Kind hearts are more than coronets. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 106 And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 168 Honour and shame were scarcely more to him than light and darkness to the blind. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home xvi. 204 He'll carry all our provisions..up to the top, which is more than most of your A.C.'s would do. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 326 I made a vow..that I would never open that infernal Euclid book again, and, what is more, I never will! So that is straight. 1940 R. Postgate Verdict of Twelve i. 12 Father was not ‘noticing’; Mother was, and what's more would twist your arm till you screamed if you sulked and wouldn't answer. 1958 L. Durrell Balthazar vi. 139 And what's more, I told Abdul so in no uncertain terms. 1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 78 For some reason he always saw more in people than others were willing to see. < as lemmas |
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