单词 | it's nothing |
释义 | > as lemmasit's nothing a. Not anything, or anybody, of importance, significance, value, or concern; something or somebody of no importance, etc. Frequently in it's nothing: used as a polite response to an apology or an expression of thanks. Chiefly in predicative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > not worth considering nothing1382 inconsiderable1670 reject1865 throw-out1956 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. xxiii. 16 Who euere shal swere by the temple of God, no thing is [a1425 L.V. it is no thing]. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1824 (MED) Who that is of man no king, The remenant is as no thing. c1500 Melusine (1895) 120 For if..I were taken of our enmyes, of my lyf is nothing. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxxv Ye same night..fel a smal raine nothyng to speak of. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 110 So that skill in the weapon is nothing without sacke. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. ii. 39 A man (they say) that from very nothing..is growne into an vnspeakable estate. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 88 It was nothing to see euery day foure or fiue men killed in the streetes. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 274 We..falsely imagine we are Something when in Truth we are Nothing. 1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath iii. 59 As to yourself,..your friends are low folks, and your fortune just nothing at all. 1796 J. Austen Let. 14 Jan. (1995) 3 Our party..will consist of Edward Cooper, James (for a Ball is nothing without him), Buller..& I. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. i. 19 For myself, it is nothing; I never think of myself. View more context for this quotation 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. vii. 119 I told him I had come up again, to say how sorry I was... ‘Pooh!’ said he..‘it's nothing, Pip.’ 1883 W. D. Howells Woman's Reason (new ed.) II. xii. 3 He would be nothing without her. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xl. 189 ‘It's awfully kind of you to take so much trouble with me,’ said Philip. ‘Oh, it's nothing,’ she answered! 1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 163 ‘All that fuss about nothing!’ a voice exclaimed. 1996 Independent 20 Feb. ii. 22/1 The row he sparked was nothing compared with the ‘Battle of Styles’ fought out in the early 19th century. < as lemmas |
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