| 单词 | a bright, poor specimen |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa bright, poor (etc.) specimen 5. Of persons as typical of certain qualities or of the human species. Also colloquial or slang with derogatory force, chiefly with defining adjective, as a bright, poor (etc.) specimen. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities thingc1225 headc1300 vesselc1384 soul1498 sprite?1507 spirit1559 stick1682 character1749 fish1751 hand1756 subject1797 person1807 good1809 specimen1817 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 proposition1894 cookie1913 type1922 city1946 the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities > specific known quantity1702 specimen1817 classificator1853 brain machine1858 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality > person figurer1548 illustrator1598 piece1615 exemplifiera1677 impersonation1797 specimen1817 exemplificator1828 incarnation1833 (a) (b)1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 5 ‘Here you are, Sir,’ shouted a strange specimen of the human race.1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 328 Where one continually sees magnificent specimens of human beings.(c)1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 163 There were some curious specimens among my visitors.1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert ii. 15 What was her husband about?.. He must have been a poor specimen.1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 32 92 Mr. Hickman and Mr. Young..are new specimens of the spirit and the talent, which the times and the cause of freedom have brought forth. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxi Growling was looking on in amused wonder at this specimen of vulgar effrontery, whom he had christened ‘The Brazen Baggage’, the first time he saw her. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 703 They were perhaps the two most remarkable specimens that the world could show of perverse absurdity. < as lemmas |
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