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单词 like another
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like another
a. like another: that is ordinary, unexceptional, or unremarkable; that is just one of a number of similar things, events, etc., and in itself has no particular interest. In later use also commonly like any other.
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1623 P. Gosselin tr. A. Rivet State-mysteries Iesuites 42 The people made the King, which otherwise had beene a priuate man like another [Fr. comme un autre].
1792 tr. in Polit. State Europe I. 501 By the French constitution, the King is the first public functionary, the organ of the nation in respect to foreign powers. In himself he is a mere citizen like another.
1838 J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound II. vii. 105 It is no great merit to be a seaman, for the trade is like another, a mere matter of practice and education.
1865 E. Jolly Cypresses I. ii. iii. 178 ‘Oh, Marie!.. You did not call me, and you promised!’ ‘Marie is mortal, like another,’ answered Marie, sullenly.
1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. xiii. 236 Isn't the whole thing..perhaps but a way like another for their gaining time?
1947 Social Res. 14 165 This hierarchy, like any other, is a social order in which human relations are determined by the degree of authority exercised by one group over another.
1966 I. Murdoch Time of Angels xviii. 193 I suppose it's a skill like another.
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Oct. 10 He would treat the sad duty as a job like another, except that he would come to the house after the funeral for a sherry.
2010 A. Taylor Angels of Protection i. 12 It was a day like any other, what I would call a ‘normal day’.
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