| 单词 | as like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas like (a) Introducing a supposition: as if, as though. Cf. as conj. 7, sense C. 1a. Also occasionally as like. Cf. like as if at Phrases 1b. Now colloquial or nonstandard. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > as if or as though asOE as ifc1175 askancesc1350 as whoc1380 like asa1393 like1405 like as and1523 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 3456 (MED) And evere...Lich as thei weren fisshes skales, Ther fellen from him. 1499 Mirk's Festialis (de Worde) i. f. cxiiv/2 To..bere a candell brennynge in processyon [on Candlemas Day]. As lyke they wente bodely with our lady. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 14 [Kneed grasse] is so called, bicause it hath ioints like as it were knees. 1650 Voy. & Trav. Sir John Mandevile (new ed.) lii. sig. N2 In this land grow Trees that beare Meale, of which men make faire Bread and white, and of good savour, and it seemeth like as it were Wheat. 1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xi. 173 It seemed like as a new light broke in on my soul. 1906 J. Wedwyn Crumleyknowe 100 It's no like as we were a young couple. 1987 R. Coover Night at Movies (1992) 70 It is as like he has lost something. 2010 G. D. Thompson Angel in Darkness i. 4 It seemed like as he recalled that he was a seemingly invisible voice floating around the crowd. < as lemmas |
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