单词 | here and there |
释义 | > as lemmashere and there 9. here and there. extracted from hereadv.n.2 a. In this place and in that; in various places; in some scattered places; at intervals of space: sometimes = now-and-then adj. Also, in same sense, with notion of constant or very frequent recurrence, every (†ever) here and there. (So, formerly, † here and yonder.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scattered [phrase] > here and there here and yonda1325 here and therea1375 up and downc1374 here and yonder1412 to and fro1617 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3821 But william as a wod man was euer here & þere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13981 Iesus preched hir and þar. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) ix. 112 A lyttille Village, and Houses a brood here and there. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxvii He shulde on peces hewen be a sonder Upon the playne dismembred here & yonder. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/2 Yet began there here & there about, some maner of muttering amonge the people. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Pet. i. 1 Peter an Apostle of Iesu Christ, to them that dwell here and there as straungers thorow out Pontus, Galacia, Capadocia. 1587 R. Hovenden in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 217 They be dispersed here and there in hedgerowis. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 96 Yong Fortenbrasse,..Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there, Sharkt vp a sight of lawlesse Resolutes. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶6 Able to understand but here and there a Word of what they said. 1845 London Jrnl. 1 189 Every here and there are seen dark pits and vaulted caverns. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 326 A good picture may here and there be found in our churches. 1879 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 29 391/2 Her style is a curious medley, every here and there, of the ambitious and the slovenly. b. To this place and to that: hither and thither; in various directions; to and fro. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither hither and thitherc725 here and there1297 from place to placea1398 hitherward and thitherwarda1398 from post to pillarc1500 from pillar to posta1550 from wig to wall1602 hither and yon1787 hither and yond1831 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 378 Þe kyng hem sende her and þer aboute in Engelond. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 Ase þe wyȝte þet ualþ ine hot weter, þet kest hyer and þer. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 34 In yre thay harlit him heir and thair. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1357 Th' Ape..Fled here and there, and euerie corner sought. 1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 33 Be attentive, turning not thine eyes here and there. 1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 78 The brute..was caught, and taken here and there for sale. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adverb] here and therec1300 shiftingly1580 palterly1598 shufflingly1657 evasively1736 wrigglingly1866 c1300 Beket 42 Tho Gilbert ihurde this; he stod in grete thoȝt, And feignede his word her and ther, and ne grantede noȝt. 1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 11 Thou canting, whining, here and there Villain. d. Hence here-and-thereian n. humorous one who moves about from place to place.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iv. 43 I am a kind of a—what decallum—a sort of a Here-and—thereian; I am Stranger no where. here and there = this place; (also) the present; the present life. Frequently in here and now; also as adv.phr.; so here-and-nowness. Also here and there n.phr. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] instancec1374 nowa1393 presenta1425 nowadays?c1425 the time1484 presentens1509 here1608 present tense1630 now1633 the now1720 day1766 today1831 this day and age1832 of the period1859 nowaday1886 these days1936 the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [noun] > here or this place here1608 the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > here > here and now here and now1829 hic et nunc1935 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 252 Thou loosest here, a better where to find. View more context for this quotation 1816 M. E. Bicknell Let. 26 Sept. in J. Constable Corr. (1964) II. 210 I know of no other plan but of my leaving here early on Monday. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 117 With Him it is a universal Here and Now. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiv. 269 I—I—ought to have left here before. 1839 C. Dickens Let. ?24 July (1965) I. 567 I dine in town tomorrow and shall leave for here at 10 at night. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha Introd. 9 Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter. 1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia 19 [Motion] requires a here and a there. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxiv. 623 You would rather not leave here till to-morrow morning. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ in Macmillan's Mag. XXXVIII. July 177 Widening his consciousness from Here and Now to larger wholes. 1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain xvi. 228 Here and now for thy dear sake I will forget my people and my father's house. 1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xliii. 172 Your thoughts travel through time and space, far from the Here and Now. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 176 Its romantic appeal is an escape from here and now into an artificial world of somewhere else or some time past. a1943 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 248 The detail of the here-and-now as given him in perception. 1957 C. Day Lewis Pegasus 56 The truant here-and-there of the Stour. 1959 Listener 26 Feb. 385/1 Whether Condorcet or Huxley is right is an undecidable question for us here and now. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 522/3 All combine to form a subtle escape-route from the unwelcome here-and-now of the twentieth century. 1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head x. 85 She was all gentleness and filled with so genuine a concern to save me here and now from distress and anxiety. 1962 Listener 26 Apr. 717/2 Here and now Russia, while she does not want a war with us, is nevertheless our antagonist. 1963 Times 27 Feb. 13/1 They came, it seems, to a realization of the here-and-nowness of life. 1971 New Scientist 27 Apr. 263/1 Cocking's group have their minds firmly concentrated on the here-and-now. here and there b. here and there, here..there, here, there and everywhere, neither here nor there: see here adv. 12. < as lemmas |
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