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单词 just-bearable
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just-bearable
b. In sense 5, as just-bearable, just-sufficient, etc.
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a1714 J. Sharp Eight Disc. (1734) V. vi. 206 With some Men the Course of Life they are engaged in..is thought a just sufficient Reason to exempt them from the Practice of those strict Rules of Virtue and Piety, that other Christians take themselves to be obliged to.
1825 F. Joyce Pract. Chem. Mineral. 371 Drop in cautiously a just sufficient quantity of muriate of barya to decompose the Whole of the sulphate salts.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. 179 A just-bearable specimen of the way in which ladies of quality could write.
1884 F. H. Myers in Fortn. Rev. 613 The companionship of the just-elder sister.
1915 Outlook 24 Mar. 697/1 Whenever we reached the just-alive ones [sc. churches] on Sunday we were sure to hear the minister take the text in his teeth and start for the goal of eternity with it.
1938 S. S. Stevens & H. Davis Hearing iv. 149 We are..concerned..only with..the ability of an added just-noticeable difference to contribute always the same increment to the total subjective effect.
2005 H. Watzman Company C iii. 103 I was able to enter into a walking, dreamless trance in which a just-sufficient portion of my brain remained alert.
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