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单词 like as if
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like as if
b. like as if: as the case would be if, just as if; = as if at as adv. and conj. Phrases 1a. Cf. Phrases 1a(b), like as and at Phrases 1c. Now nonstandard.
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1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) clx. sig. O.vi They gadre togyder golde & syluer in euery place lyke as yf it grewe.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xvi. i. 53 Hee came to Augustudunum aforesaid; like as if [L. velut] he had beene a leader of long continuance.
1663 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Art Chirurg.: Fifth Bk. Pract. Physick (new ed.) v. i. xl. 2521/1 In the Forehead there appear here and there Tumors or Swellings, like as if they were certain Horns.
1763 Genuine Trial M. Beddingfield & R. Ringe 15 I heard a little noise, I could not tell what it was, like as if children were crying.
1799 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 272 I held the letter in my hand like as if I was stupid.
1882 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. July 548/2 It was like as if I never saw what sin was before; how real and how dreadful.
1975 J. B. Keane Lett. of Matchmaker in Celebrated Lett. (1996) 325 The strangest feeling came over me like as if I was the only creature in the whole wide world.
2001 D. King Burglar Diaries xx. 158 He's looking really fucking nervous now, like as if twenty Dobermans have just wandered in and started growling at him.
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