| 单词 | last but one |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslast but one 6. After last and next, chiefly in last but one, next but one; occasionally also after first (now rare).next door but one: see next door n. 2, next door adv. 3. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 19 Þe leste uers buten an of benedicite omnia. c1540 T. Botelar Reg. in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1883) 6 130 The last day but one of Feb. being Gudtyde Sonday. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 330 Boniface the Archebishop (next but one in succession after Richard, of whome we spake before). 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 861 The first time that euer the two kings were of one house but then. 1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 46 Q. What meane you by that, To increase flat? A. To haue the last syllable, but one, pressed down flatte in pronouncing. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Rogation The next week but one before Whitsunday. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 Nov. (2013) 62 I forgot to leave a gap in the last line but one for the seal. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Antepenultimate is that before the Penultimate, or the last but two. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 320 The Sunday next but one before Easter. 1837 Eng.-Lat. Lexicon at First The first but one, a primo proximus. 1859 Musical Times & Singing Class Circular 9 5/1 The re for the Alto voice in the last bar but three should be sol. 1917 F. Klickmann Between Larch-woods & Weir ii. 21 The vermilion satin cushion.., that had lain in a trunk in the attic since the last Sale of Work but two. 1947 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 7 76 Some twenty years after inauguration of the first but one corporation in the country. 1948 L. A. G. Strong Trevannion xiii. 211 The next evening but one after the fight. 2004 Independent 29 July 37/4 One [sc. a drug] that clearly impressed my son's last but one NHS consultant. < as lemmas |
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