| 单词 | in one way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin one way 21. An aspect of something; a detail, a feature, a point; a respect or particular in which things can be judged or compared. Usually in adverbial phrases, as in all ways, in some ways, in any way, in one way, in more ways than one, etc. (sometimes also with in omitted). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [phrase] > for several reasons in more ways than one1480 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > specifically [phrase] > in detail > in any point or particular in any way1480 1480 Higden's Discripcion Brit. (Caxton) xv Othir scolemaiestrs..leue all frenssh in scoles & vse alle construction in englissh, wherin they haue auantage one way that is that they lerne the sonner their gramer And in anothir disauauntage, for now they lerne no frenssh ne can none. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour Ep. sig. A4v And geue thay be, in ony way offendit Declare to thame, it salbe weill amendit. a1600 R. Hooker Wks. (1836) III. 796 That justice exacteth punishment for offending, even after their offences be forgiven them, there is, as it seemeth, proof sufficient more ways than one. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 12 His worst fault is, that he is giuen to prayer; hee is something peeuish that way . View more context for this quotation a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1900) 38/13 Also we make them differ in Colour, Shape, Activity, many wayes. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne iv. iv. 58 The office of a man Thats truly valiant, is considerable Three wayes: The first is in respect of matter..; in respect of forme..; And in the end [etc.]. 1750 S. Richardson Lett. Particular Friends (ed. 4) xi. 24 It will be a Credit to you more ways than one. 1816 Edinb. Rev. Dec. 464 The foreign Commissioners had not yet reached St Helena, whose presence in the island may justly have alarmed Sir Hudson, in more ways than one, for the safety of his prisoner. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate v May you find a companion better in all ways than I could have been! 1893 R. Le Gallienne Retrosp. Rev. (1896) II. 21 A teetotaler, however admirable in other ways, is not the fit person to edit Burns. 1922 Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 12 159 In other ways, it may introduce into the physical scheme of concepts, artifactual terms and relationships, which have the same irrelevancy to the real. 1952 M. R. Rinehart Swimming Pool xiv. 129 It's a dead end, in more ways than one. 1989 J. Aiken Blackground ii. 57 I will not have anybody here who has been in any way connected with drug abuse. 2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten xvi. 196 Thallium..was in some ways similar to lead, in others to silver, in others to aluminum, and in yet others to potassium. < as lemmas |
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