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单词 as though
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as though
b. as though: = as if at Phrases 1a.
(a) With finite clause.
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a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 7 Sainte powel..wrot þo a writ and sende hit synfulle men,..and dude him seluen mid hem þaron, alse þeih he sunful were.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 18 (MED) As þah hit were þe seoueðe time of þe dei.
c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) l. 58 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 464 (MED) Ase þei heo and hire soster neren nouȝt of one blode.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 19088 Qui wondir gie..Als þoȝ þis war don wiþ ur miȝt?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7690 Als þof his wiþerwin he war.
c1400 Brut 238 Buriede in þat sande, as þauȝ þai hade bene hondes.
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 54 (MED) As þeiȝ þer by he schulde helpe hym silf out of þis wondring.
1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 18 §2 The Quene [shall] have like Habilitie..as though she had orygynally ben borne within this Realme.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eii Your speche is as pleasant as though it were pend To here your comon it is my hygh comforte.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K5 This is as though a man should despise meane fare, bicause he cannot come by better.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 261 I'faith, ile eate nothing: I thanke you as much as though I did. View more context for this quotation
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 305 Hee [sc. Christ] bowes his Head; as though hee would becke vs towards him.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 298 The Camell..hath a most slow and lazy pace.., as though he were weighing his feete in a ballance.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xiv. 331 I have reason to love him, as though he was my own son.
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance II. iii. iv. 890 The goods in such case are as much sacrificed for the general safety as though they were jettisoned.
1864 G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 239 This looks as though Magnus was more afraid of Harold than of Sweyn.
1932 A. Huxley Brave New World xvii. 276 He manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.
1963 D. Storey Radcliffe xxxvi. 367 It's the sense of imitation that's so forbidding... As though it's all a deception, and the only person it doesn't deceive is me.
2007 I. Stewart Why Beauty is Truth xiii. 236 The particles behaved as though they were spinning around some axis.
(b) With non-finite clause.
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1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 48 Characters and..diagrams..which Kircher has passed by unnoticed, as though making no part of the inscriber's intention.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc i. 26 As tho' by some divinity possess'd.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxvi. 349 Mr. Lumbey shook his head with great solemnity, as though to imply that he supposed she must have been rather a dazzler.
1890 S. W. Baker Wild Beasts I. 159 These cuts were as neatly drawn across the skull as though done by a sharp pruning knife.
1904 Collier's 7 May 9/1 Hot ashes over which the Japanese passed their hands continually, as though performing an incantation.
1955 O. Manning Doves of Venus ii. v. 131 Nancy..was complacently silent, watching her uncle and friend as though conscious of being the begetter of all that passed between them.
2002 R. Mistry Family Matters (2003) xiv. 308 Bringing his head forward as though to better observe this Parsi lingering outside.
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as though
b. as though: see as adv. and conj. Phrases 1b. Also with ellipsis of as (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [conjunction] > as if
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as though1297
likec1400
and?a1475
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 165 Vpe þe hul of þe pek þe wind þere iwis Vp of þe erþe ofte comþ of holes þei hit were.
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