| 单词 | how do you make that out? |
| 释义 | > as lemmashow do you make that out? 12. transitive. To establish by evidence, argument, or investigation; to demonstrate, prove. Now frequently colloquial in phrases such as: how do you make that out?: ‘by what process do you arrive at that conclusion?’ Also with clause as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] i-sothea925 soothec950 fanda1000 kitheOE betell1048 showc1175 prove?c1225 treousec1275 stablisha1325 approve1340 verifyc1386 justifya1393 tryc1412 answer?a1425 appreve?c1450 to make gooda1470 convictc1475 averifyc1503 arguea1513 find1512 pree1515 comprobate1531 demonstrate1538 conclude1549 convince1555 argument1558 evict1571 avoucha1593 evidencea1601 remonstrate1601 clear1605 attaint1609 monstrate1609 evince1610 evince1611 improve1613 remonstrance1621 to make out1653 ascertain1670 to bring off1674 to make (something) to through1675 render1678 substantiatea1691 establisha1704 to bring out1727 realize1763 validate1775 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > prove, demonstrate [verb (transitive)] > be proof of provea1200 showa1325 declarec1400 verifyc1430 givec1449 persuadea1525 arguea1538 demonstrate1572 argue1585 put1596 evidence1611 evident1643 to make out1795 1653 J. Webster Academiarum Examen 81 In the 8. book, besides innumerable falsityes.., that is a most signal one, which in the first chapter labours to build up, of the eternity of motion: that thereby he may make out the ingeniture, and eternity of the world. 1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. ii. iii. 197 They are..at a loss..to make out whence they learn't that God is powerful. a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 4 If it could be made out, that such who have easie Nativities have commonly hard Deaths. 1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. i. 44 He, that would not deceive himself, ought to build his Hypothesis on matter of fact, and make it out by sensible experience. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §128. 149 It has been..clearly made out, that a Man Born Blind wou'd not, at first reception of his Sight, think the things he saw were [etc.]. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. vi. 174 That in truth it was so, is made out by a variety of examples which the writings of Josephus furnish. 1803 Pic Nic No. 4. 5 How do these gentlemen make out their case? 1822 C. P. Clinch Spy i. iii, in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIV. 67 Sand: I've no doubt we'll make more money by keeping ‘hands off’ than by laying them on him. Raw: How the devil will you make that out? Sand: By making out that a live man is better than a dead one. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 391 Shakespeare has made out a strong case for Shylock. 1887 ‘L. Carroll’ Game of Logic iv. 93 ‘That lets me into a little fact about you, you know!’ ‘Why, how do you make that out? You never heard me play the organ?’ 1892 Sat. Rev. 8 Oct. 419/2 It would be easy to make out a strong case for the contention. 1920 T. P. Nunn Education xi. 131 A thorough-going misogynist could make out a case for applying the adjectives ‘mechanical’, ‘blind’, ‘unintelligent’, even to human mother-instinct. 1976 Times 21 May 4/4 The Government is satisfied that that special case has not been made out. 1991 R. Harrison Patently Murder (BNC) 18 ‘However, in my opinion the body had lain for some hours after death in a supine position.’ ‘On its back? How do you make that out, sir?’ < as lemmas |
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