| 单词 | in a little |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin a little b. A short time or (less commonly) distance. Chiefly in after a little, for a little, in a little.‘A short distance’ is frequent in adverbial use: see sense B. 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > a short or moderate space of time weekeOE littleOE roomOE stoundOE startc1300 houra1350 furlong wayc1384 piecea1400 weea1400 speed whilec1400 hanlawhilea1500 snack1513 spirt?1550 snatch1563 fit1583 spurta1591 shortness1598 span1599 bit1653 thinking time1668 thinking-while1668 onwardling1674 way-bit1674 whilie1819 fillip1880 the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance wurpc950 stepc1000 footc1300 furlong wayc1384 stone-casta1387 straw brede14.. tinec1420 weec1420 field-breadth1535 field-broad1535 pair of butts1545 straw-breadth1577 stone's throw1581 way-bit?1589 space1609 piece1612 littlea1616 spirt1670 a spit and a stride1676 hair's breadth1706 rope's length1777 biscuit throw1796 a whoop and a holler1815 biscuit toss1836 biscuit cast1843 stone-shot1847 pieceway1886 stone-put1896 pitch-and-putt1925 pieceways1932 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xxii. 58 Et post pussillum alius uidens eum dixit et tu de illis es : & æfter lytlum uel ymb lytle huile oðer gesæh hine cuoeð & ðu of him uel ðæm arð. OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 16 Nu ymbe alytel [c1200 Hatton an lytel] ge me ne geseoð & eft embe lytel ge me geseoþ. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xvi. 16 A litil, and now ȝe schulen not se me. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 7047 Sone aftyrward, with-yn a lytyl was þere wryte anoþer tytyl. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 129v Lengys here at a litill lystyn my wordes. 1562 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 289 Alettell before we dede heare of matters myche nedfull & wourthie to be amended. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Pet. ii. 18 They allure..those that were cleane [margin. Or, for a little, or a while] escaped from them who liue in errour. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 267 For a little Follow, and doe me seruice. View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 Sept. (1971) IV. 293 Up pretty betimes and after a little at my Viall, to my office. 1715 J. Fergusson tr. Rom. Conduct in quashing Catiline's Conspiracy 118 It would be a severe Pinch upon them to have their Shops shut up for a little. 1768 Monthly Rev. July 47 In a little we were told that dinner was served up. 1827 T. Carlyle tr. F. H. K. de La Motte Fouqué in German Romance I. 293 In a little, he and Froda left the inn. 1881 W. H. Mallock Romance 19th Cent. II. 290 Be here then and we will go for a little into the garden. 1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles ix. 100 Waiters like to take the weight off their feet for a little. 1995 S. Barry Only True Hist. Lizzie Finn i, in Plays: One (1997) 179 I don't like a person to put shame to me. (After a little.) My mother went barefoot all her life. in a little ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb] > in short at a (also one) wordOE at few wordsOE shortly1303 in short wordsc1380 oncec1384 in short and plainc1386 in sum?a1425 at short wordsa1450 at short1513 briefly?1521 in a word1522 in one word1522 with a word1522 summa1535 to be short1544 in (the) fine1545 in few1550 summarily1567 in a sum1574 in shorta1577 in brief1609 briefa1616 in a little1623 tout court1747 sans phrase1808 in a nutshell1822 in nuce1854 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. i. 12 But pray how past it?.. Ile tell you in a little. 1645 H. Prime Compassionate Christ Pref. sig. A3v This Treatise tells us in a little, how the Kingdome of heaven is laid in the small, but sure beginnings of Gospell bruisings. < as lemmas |
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