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单词 anything like
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anything like
P2. anything like: (with noun) in any way like; in any way similar (†to); (in other constructions) in any way approaching; by any means. Cf. something like at something adv. 3.Frequently in negative contexts (cf. nothing like at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 5a).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > degree or relative amount [phrase] > in any degree or at all
anything like1529
with least or most1575
with least or most1575
for any sake1824
1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. xviii. f. xxiii/1 The lawes of Cryste..bee not in hardnes & dyffyculte of kepyng any thyng lyke to the lawes of Moyses.
1625 J. Layfield in S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vi. iii. 1172 Their Pines are in shape like a Pine-apple,..but neither in feeling or taste are they any thing like.
1647 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer ii. i. 59 Can you pretend an excuse now may absolve you, Or any thing like honest, to bring you off?
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. xxi. 436 I demand concerning these, and what-ever else looks any thing like either an Antichristian Imposition or Imposture, [etc.].
1786 T. Mortimer tr. J. Necker Treat. Admin Finances France (ed. 2) II. i. 28 We must now estimate the savings on the charges; they would not be any thing like so considerable as it is generally imagined.
1793 J. Bentham Wks. (1843) x. 239 The £600 a-year..I do not look upon as anything like adequate.
1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 6 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1988) V. 54 The N. W. or rapid fork..dose not at all seasons of the year supply any thing like as much water as the other.
1860 Punch 8 Dec. 223/1 Labourers on their estates are..perhaps not anything like so well fed as the Stevensone fox hounds.
1875 J. O'Rourke Hist. Great Irish Famine vii. 196 To have met the Potato Famine with anything like complete success, would have been a Herculean task for any government.
1914 Black Cat Oct. 28/1 Do I look anything like a burglar? Being a policeman you ought to know the breed.
1957 New Scientist 12 Sept. 42/3 Scientists do not go in, in anything like sufficient numbers, for civic or political work.
2009 Guardian Unlimited (Nexis) 16 Sept. The new and recent evidence..cannot be mitigated anything like so easily.
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