英语词汇“as it were”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. as it were: (as a parenthetic phrase used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not formally exact though practically right) as if it were so, if one might so put it, in some sort.

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as it werec1175

quasi1485

so to say1619

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16896 Þatt lede þatt primmseȝȝnedd iss..iss all alls itt wære ȝet I nahhtess þessterrnesse.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ix. l. 22 Ich wolde a-saye som tyme for solas, as hit were.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 26 She was as it were a maner deye.

a1456 (a1402) J. Trevisa tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (BL Add.) f. 113^v (MED) Ye..shal speke with no man, but ye shal beo, as hit were, dombe.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xi. sig. ci It draweth a man as it were by violence.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Mar. 11 Gloss. The messenger, and as it were, the forerunner of springe.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §788 In the cold Countries, when Mens Noses and Ears are mortified, and (as it were) Gangrened with cold.

1692 E. Walker tr. Epictetus Enchiridion (1737) xxii You're as it were the Actor of a Play.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 32. ⁋1 She has thought fit, as it were, to mock herself.

a1797 E. Burke Let. in Wks. (1845) V. 148 The government..have..as it were a bird's eye view of everything.

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 225 It is necessary from time to time to change, and as it were, to cross the breed.

1881 R. Buchanan God & Man I. 124 She took him at once, as it were, into her confidence.

1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves i. 29 I had for some little time been living, as it were, in another world. I now came down to earth with a bang.

1996 Times (Nexis) 19 June In a corner of Wells stands a gracious mansion... Its Ionic portals and exquisite interior plasterwork were built, as it were, from the blood and sweat of some 500 Negro slaves.

单词	as it were
释义	> as lemmas as it were a. as it were: (as a parenthetic phrase used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not formally exact though practically right) as if it were so, if one might so put it, in some sort. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > as it were as it werec1175 quasi1485 so to say1619 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16896 Þatt lede þatt primmseȝȝnedd iss..iss all alls itt wære ȝet I nahhtess þessterrnesse. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ix. l. 22 Ich wolde a-saye som tyme for solas, as hit were. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 26 She was as it were a maner deye. a1456 (a1402) J. Trevisa tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (BL Add.) f. 113^v (MED) Ye..shal speke with no man, but ye shal beo, as hit were, dombe. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xi. sig. ci It draweth a man as it were by violence. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Mar. 11 Gloss. The messenger, and as it were, the forerunner of springe. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §788 In the cold Countries, when Mens Noses and Ears are mortified, and (as it were) Gangrened with cold. 1692 E. Walker tr. Epictetus Enchiridion (1737) xxii You're as it were the Actor of a Play. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 32. ⁋1 She has thought fit, as it were, to mock herself. a1797 E. Burke Let. in Wks. (1845) V. 148 The government..have..as it were a bird's eye view of everything. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 225 It is necessary from time to time to change, and as it were, to cross the breed. 1881 R. Buchanan God & Man I. 124 She took him at once, as it were, into her confidence. 1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves i. 29 I had for some little time been living, as it were, in another world. I now came down to earth with a bang. 1996 Times (Nexis) 19 June In a corner of Wells stands a gracious mansion... Its Ionic portals and exquisite interior plasterwork were built, as it were, from the blood and sweat of some 500 Negro slaves. extracted from asadv.conj. < as lemmas
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