| 单词 | a ways |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa ways (b) colloquial (originally U.S., chiefly North American). a ways: a considerable or not insignificant distance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a distance strikec1330 spacea1382 lengtha1500 starta1552 a good (also great, little, long, etc.) ways1568 a ways1858 1858 Ohio Cultivator 15 May 149/1 ‘That subsoil plow runs like a daisy. I take a span of horses on Gill's No. 8, and turn over ten inches, then follow with another span on the subsoil, and go ten inches deeper.’ That man has an idea he owns quite a ways down. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xviii. 169 I poked into the place a-ways. 1896 O. P. Read Arkansas Planter x. 116 Here, let me carry it for you a ways. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights x. 165 The Yumas moved up river a ways. 1927 W. Faulkner Mosquitoes 202 I'll carry you a ways, until we get somewhere. 1938 T. Wilder Our Town i. 52 Can I walk along a ways with you? 1976 New Yorker 15 Mar. 67/1 As it passed over the ridge to land on the other side it hit a tree quite a ways up. 2006 I. Rankin Naming of Dead xx. 290 ‘You're a ways from home,’ Rebus advised him. < as lemmas |
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