单词 | as far as see him |
释义 | > as lemmasas far as (I, etc.) see him c. To a certain extent or degree. as far as (I, etc.) see him: normally in contexts implying distrust. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > by or to a great degree or extent mickleseOE mickleeOE sevensitheOE highOE muchc1225 wellc1300 fara1400 goodlya1450 long?a1475 farlya1500 largea1522 muchly1621 very1641 heartily1727 lot1839 lot1855 big time1957 batshit1993 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16386 Sacles es he sa feir se sum i can. c1400 Rom. Rose 2209 Hated bothe of olde and yong, As fer as Gaweyn the worthy, Was preised for his curtesie. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 As fer as my wrecchednes wold suffyse. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 116v The Bay [horse] is most of pryce as farre as I see at this day. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 84v For thou.., wilt not permitte any (as farre as in thee lyeth) to be well employed. 1601 J. Manningham in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 45 A Citizen gaene soe farr in liking with him. 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. C2 Am... Wil you trust him? Iul. Yes as farre as I see him. 1638 Duke of Hamilton in Hamilton Papers (1880) 18 How fare I shall be abill to prevall uith him I can not yett tell. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. viii. 35 He may be so farre a good man, as to be free from giving offence. 1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) I. iii. 46 Such persons may so far conduce to the temporal prosperity of a nation. 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 119 But this law so far as it prescribed a new bushel, had never been executed. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 423 To decide how far he deserved it. 1848 A. Trollope Kellys & O'Kellys I. i. 15 He knows what he's about, and isn't the man to thrust a Protesthant half as far as he'd see him. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 427 Let us endeavour to ascertain how far we are consistent with ourselves. 1969 ‘A. Gilbert’ Missing from Home xiii. 205 ‘She doesn't trust us as far as she can see us,’ Charlie remarked. < as lemmas |
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