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单词 just as well
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just as well
c. In just as well.
(a) With that or if-clause or infinitive: advisable, desirable; = sense A. 2a(a).
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1810 Monthly Mag. July 616 From what we can gather..it were just as well that the 160 vessels returned home.
1822 Edinb. Rev. Nov. 381 It might be just as well if they were now to avail themselves of the very favourable occasion which offers itself for practising what they used so freely to preach.
1867 Minutes of Evid. Select Comm. Metropolis Subways Bill 121 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 495) XI. 203 If any other clauses are to be introduced, it is just as well that we should know what they are.
1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xii. 188 Under all the circumstances it seems as if it would be just as well to call a spine a spine instead of a stylocerite.
1903 W. D. Howells Lett. Home iv. 24 I think it is just as well to begin that way till we know the ropes a little better.
1986 F. Underwood & G. Warr in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 155 If you intend to make many mortises it is just as well to obtain the ones [sc. chisels] you will need.
2007 J. Scalzi Last Colony i. 25 The rationale was that the people who were in them would otherwise be causing trouble at home, so it was just as well to let them go.
(b) With that-clause: fortunate, lucky; = sense A. 2a(b).
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1816 J. Marcet Conv. Polit. Econ. i. 11 As we are never likely to become legislators, is it not just as well that we should remain in happy ignorance of evils which we have no power to remedy?
1830 J. Welsh Mil. Reminisc. I. vii. 261 A glimpse of him was sufficient to satisfy me that it was just as well we did not fall in with this sovereign of the eastern woods, in his rude state.
1889 M. E. Kennard Landing Prize vii Perhaps it was just as well..that Ebenezer remained in his cabin.
1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels xiii. § 3 They conformed to the rules,..observing the spirit rather than the letter of the law. Which was just as well.
1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club ix. 110 Perhaps it's just as well he popped off when he did. He might have cut me off with a shilling.
1977 News of World 17 Apr. 24/7 It was just as well that most of Brighton's promotion rivals faltered yesterday.
2005 Independent 17 May (Motoring section) 9/3 Just as well that the car is so blisteringly quick.
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