单词 | as follows |
释义 | > as lemmasas follows P2. impersonal. as follows: a prefatory formula used to introduce something, such as a statement, enumeration, or list. Cf. sense 16.The use of as follow with the verb follow in the plural is sometimes considered incorrect: see quots. 1776, 1797.In earliest use with adverb. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > below or hereafter (in a later part of a book, etc.) > as follows as follows1385 followingly?c1425 1385 in D. Macpherson et al. Rotuli Scotiae (1819) II. 73/1 The forsayd lordes are acordit..as efter folowes. 1428 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 9 Apon whylk commonyng, when yai come hame, was done afterwarde als her fast folowys. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlvij He openly sayde as foloweth. 1659 Occurr. Forraigne Parts No. 1. 8 This day all the East India ships arrived safely in the Texel, the Cargosom of whose goods are as follows. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. ii. iv. 495 Analogy as well as usage favour this mode of expression. ‘The conditions of the agreement were as follows’; and not as follow. A few late writers have inconsiderately adopted this last form through a mistake of the construction. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer ii. xii. §1. 374 The reasons that dissuade us..are as follow. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. iii. §7 There are philosophers who have argued as follows. 1931 R. R. Merton tr. P. D. Ouspensky New Model of Universe v. 207 This makes 56 cards divided into four suits.., named as follows: Wands (clubs), Cups (hearts), Swords (spades), and Pentacles or discs (diamonds). 2015 E. D. Alexander Rattling of Chains I. ii. 47 In ranking order of importance in how they shrink your profits, they are as follow. < as lemmas |
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