| 单词 | as things, people, etc, go |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas things, people, etc., go (b) as things, people, etc., go: judging by the common or typical standard of the things or people specified. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > in general [phrase] > usual or general standard as things go1575 par for the course1947 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes 19 Some friends I found, as friends do go. 1639 J. Shirley Ball iv. sig. H Col. And are you sure hee's honest? Lac. As Lords goe now adayes that are in fashion. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 321 They call it fortify'd, and so it is, as Fortifications go there. 1787 A. W. Costigan Sketches Society & Manners Portugal I. xvi. 308 He is a man..of a very good provincial fortune, as fortunes go in this country. 1841 Fraser's Mag. 23 16 ‘How goes it, Joe?’ ‘Pretty well, as times go.’ 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxii. 314 It was a good enough luncheon, as hotels go. 1879 G. R. Sims Dagonet Ballads 32 A decent chap was her father, as folks in alleys go. 1901 W. G. van T. Sutphen Cardinal's Rose xiv. 122 As situations go, I ought to be well content. 1922 Vogue 1 Apr. 106/1 The general tone is comedy, and very good comedy as comedy goes. 1986 H. W. Morgan Amer. Art Student in Paris 214 His financial situation marked him as a success, as artists went. 1997 Big Issue 9 June 32/3 As birds go, pigeons must rank at the scuzzy, scrag-end of the feathered hierarchy. < as lemmas |
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