英语词汇“in a pickwickian sense”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Frequently humorous. Of a word, expression, etc.: not literally meant; (sometimes) interpreted in such a way as to avoid unpleasantness, difficulty, etc. Esp. in in a Pickwickian sense.

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1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) i. 4 The Chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand..whether he had used the expression..in a common sense. Mr. Blotton had no hesitation in saying, that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.

1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 309/2 The work is called..‘A year in Spain’... In Mr. Slidell's case.., years are only to be considered in a Pickwickian sense.

1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 100 Out it comes..with no mincing of phrase, and no Pickwickian or Congressional explanations afterwards.

1903 T. B. Aldrich Ponkapog Papers 163 He forswore sack and poetry; but presently he was with the Muse again, and his farewell to sack was in a strictly Pickwickian sense.

1952 C. Hartshorne in C. W. Kegley & R. W. Bretall Theol. Paul Tillich ii. vii. 183 The completeness and universality are, of course, Pickwickian, hedged about with radical but indeterminate qualifications.

1998 Times 25 June 24/4 Mr Blair will no longer be able to claim that his comments on monetary union..were made purely in his capacity as chairman of a private club and should therefore be seen as humbug ‘only in the Pickwickian sense’.

单词	in a pickwickian sense
释义	> as lemmas in a Pickwickian sense b. Frequently humorous. Of a word, expression, etc.: not literally meant; (sometimes) interpreted in such a way as to avoid unpleasantness, difficulty, etc. Esp. in in a Pickwickian sense. ΚΠ 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) i. 4 The Chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand..whether he had used the expression..in a common sense. Mr. Blotton had no hesitation in saying, that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. 1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 309/2 The work is called..‘A year in Spain’... In Mr. Slidell's case.., years are only to be considered in a Pickwickian sense. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 100 Out it comes..with no mincing of phrase, and no Pickwickian or Congressional explanations afterwards. 1903 T. B. Aldrich Ponkapog Papers 163 He forswore sack and poetry; but presently he was with the Muse again, and his farewell to sack was in a strictly Pickwickian sense. 1952 C. Hartshorne in C. W. Kegley & R. W. Bretall Theol. Paul Tillich ii. vii. 183 The completeness and universality are, of course, Pickwickian, hedged about with radical but indeterminate qualifications. 1998 Times 25 June 24/4 Mr Blair will no longer be able to claim that his comments on monetary union..were made purely in his capacity as chairman of a private club and should therefore be seen as humbug ‘only in the Pickwickian sense’. extracted from Pickwickianadj.n. < as lemmas
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