单词 | it says |
释义 | > as lemmasit says a. it says: there is (a particular comment or form of words, or certain information) contained in a piece of writing, text, etc. Frequently with the source specified with in, on. Also occasionally in passive. Cf. it pron. 3f.In early use also impersonal (e.g. quots. OE1, c1275). ΚΠ OE Blickling Homilies 41 Þonne sægþ on þissum bocum þæt Drihten sylf cwæde [etc.]. OE Homily: Be rihtan Cristendome (Hatton 113) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 146 Hit segð eac on halgum bocum, þæt an deofol arehte anum ancran ealle hellegryras. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 136 Nu hit swa cuðlice on þissum godspellicæn lare sæȝð þæt ðe wariȝede deofel hine þær swa openlice costniæn ongon. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 94 For hwen ha is ipruet, hit seið ha schal beon icrunet mid te crune of lif. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1072 (MED) Wel fiȝt þat wel specþ, seiþ in þe songe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8818 (MED) Þus þai fanded it tre dais, Als it in þe stori sais. a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 9 Als yure maistiresse leris yu, als it sais: ‘Qui uos audit [etc.]’. 1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace xxviii. f. 120v The glose, where it saythe [etc.]. 1595 M. Mosse Arraignm. Usurie iii. 60 That same Empusa, of whom it is saide in Aristophanes..She seemeth euery thing. 1622 F. Rous Dis. of Time xiv. 300 It sayes, God can bee represented by colours, or that hee is visible to the Eye, and so makes vs beleeue we see what indeed cannot be seene. a1688 J. Bunyan Acceptable Sacrifice (1689) 92 As it says in another place, Out of the Deep, out of the Belly of Hell Cryed I. 1758 Scots Mag. Mar. 150/1 Whose tomb is this? It says, 'tis Myra's tomb. 1780 Mirror No. 75 (1787) III. 6 In the very next paragraph it is said, ‘We have the pleasure of informing the Public [etc.]’. 1795 Freemasons' Mag. June 395/2 In the Leyden Gazette, Dec. 26, 1794, it says [etc.]. 1840 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici x. vii. 171 In Saxon histories... Thus it says. 1894 ‘R. Andom’ We Three & Troddles xv. 130 Giants are always wicked people. It says so in the children's books. 1900 B. Pain Eliza 54 ‘You told me it was port!’ ‘So it is.’ ‘It says tonic port on the label.’ 1977 S. Brett Star Trap xii. 134 ‘Christopher Milton is thirty-eight, at least.’ ‘But it says in the programme—’ ‘Charles, Charles, you've been in the business too long to be so naïve.’ 2012 S. Townsend Woman who went to Bed for Year xxxv. 230 It says here that your mother went to the Department of Work and Pensions.., and asked for a crisis loan. < as lemmas |
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