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单词 a vast deal
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a vast deal
6. Connected with the notion of ‘amount’ or ‘extent’: a great deal, to a great extent or degree, greatly, very much; a good deal, to a considerable extent or degree, considerably; a vast deal, vastly; †much deal, etc.
a. as verbal adjuncts.
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1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 3 To lat down ane grete dele thair hie sailis.
c1572 W. Forrest Theophilus 169 in Anglia (1884) 7 85 The iuste prayer much deale for to prevayle.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 200 I..bled..a great deal.
1845 T. Hood Last Man xxvii The beggar man grumbled a weary deal.
1887 G. A. Sala in Illustr. London News 19 Mar. I had travelled a good deal in earthquaking lands.
b. as adjuncts of adjectives or adverbs in the comparative or superlative, or their equivalents.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark x. f. lxv He cryed the moore a greate deale.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xiii. 713 Wilde Peares..do drie and stop a great deale more then the others.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 88 b The kitchin was a greate deale too little.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §160 To have them [letters] a pretty deal bigger than he should ordinarily write.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. vi. 28 You are a great deal too apt..to like people in general. View more context for this quotation
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 48 You take a great deal too much upon yourself.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 463 At a point a good deal lower than that at which they rose.
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