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单词 if you will
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if you will
P6. if you will: (used parenthetically to qualify a word or phrase) if you wish or prefer it to be so called, if you are willing to call it so (now often used to excuse an unexpected way of describing something).
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1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. H4v Let vs consider if you will in seuerall.
1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 218 Gravity..depends entirely on the constant and efficacious, and, if you will, the supernatural and miraculous Influence of Almighty God.
1777 H. L. Thrale Let. 18 Sept. in Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) I. 264 A yew hedge, or an eugh hedge if you will.
1876 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest vii. §78 Very savage! monstrous! if you will.
1892 A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse (1893) Pref. 15 I do not call these stray papers Essays, but mere Studies—fumblings if you will.
1989 S. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 93 When you split a rock to find a fossil, you get two for the price of one—the fossil itself..and the impression of the organism forced into layers above..thumb and thumbprint, if you will.
2017 C. Spence Gastrophysics iii. 40 A growing number of us are actively seeking out images of food—a kind of ‘digital foraging,’ if you will.
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