单词 | just as soon |
释义 | > as lemmasjust as soon a. As readily; as willingly. Also so soon as, just as soon; as soon as look at you: see look v. Phrases 1a(e). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb] > as willingly as soon (as)1600 so soon as1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 52 Ile beleeue, as soone, This whole earth may be bor'd. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 202 Yet..I do not know the man I should auoyd So soone as that spare Cassius. View more context for this quotation 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend ii. i I'd as soon undertake to keep Portocarero honest. 1775 R. B. Sheridan St. Patrick's Day ii. iv I had as soon recover, notwithstanding. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 5 He would abuse a stranger as soon as his best friend. 1816 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 22 I had as soon be beaten by him as by anybody else. 1825 W. Scott Talisman x, in Tales Crusaders III. 247 They would march under the banner of Satan as soon. 1913 W. B. Yeats Hour-glass in Mask V. 328 I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder as listen to your thoughts. 1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xvii. 254 I'd as soon have stone-ginger any day. 1966 D. Francis Flying Finish x. 133 He waved me to join him, which I would just as soon not have done. 1974 C. Hampton Savages (1976) vii. 45 Because Chico well He'd cut your head off soon as say good morning. 1974 ‘M. Hebden’ Pride of Dolphins i. iii. 34 I'd just as soon you dropped me..and let me make my own way home. < as lemmas |
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