| 单词 | as many |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas many b. as many (without correlative as-clause): the same number of. ΚΠ c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 4125 Prothylus..put on the water ffyfte shippes fyn...King Sapmon..With alsmony abill shippes auntrid hym seluyn. 1602 E. Hayes in J. Brereton Briefe Relation Discouerie Virginia 19 After that we be once 200 men strong, victualled and fortified, we can not be remooued by as many thousands. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. viii. 50 He found means to cut me [when shaving] in three places, in as many strokes. 1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 131 [The hectolitre] contains an hundred and five pintes, equal to as many english quarts. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 965 In the union of egg and sperm we witness the joining together of but two sets of characters and not that of ‘x’ sets derived from as many ancestors. 1946 Liberty 25 May 78/1 The identical drink may have a dozen different names in as many cities. 1997 K. Reichs Déjà Dead xxi. 246 For the third time in as many days I saw daybreak. so (or as) many.. b. so (or as) many.., so many, used to express equality in numbers. (See also how adv. 11b.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > as many so (or as) many‥1548 so many1563 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Prol. Matt. 1 Swæ monig aron bissena..swa monige boec. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xijv Verifiynge the olde Prouerbe, so many heades, so many wittes. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 149 So many men, so many minds (saies the proverb): but here they were of one accord. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant II. 181 When a Bassa is in march, so many robbers taken, so many heads off in an instant. 1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. §44 As many men, so many minds. < as lemmas |
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