英语词汇“like for like”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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P1. Phrases with prepositions. See also in like adv.

†a. by (the) like: in all likelihood, probably; (also in weaker sense) perhaps, possibly. Cf. belike adv. Obsolete.

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1533 in tr. P. Valeriano Pro Sacerdotum Barbis f. 17 Lyke as in the sentence before, some vncleane shauer hath shauen away a worde, so by lyke, here in this pistyll of Alexander, some brayneles felowe hath added to a word. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.]

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 337^v Harpalus (who by like had a good insight in suche matiers).

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 330/2 King William..conceyued displeasure against Urbane..and alledged by the like that no..Bishop within hys Realme, should haue respect..to anye Pope.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 73 By like all their ceremonies bee not so auncient.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 89 The whyte rocks or clifs, (by lyke about Douer).

1692 J. Dunton Young-students-libr. 443/1 Several Bishops knew not even how to write their Names, so that they were forced in the Councils to make others Subscribe for them; which by-like was very common, seeing they made no difficulty to confess a thing, which should have covered them with shame.

1767 Gentleman's Mag. June 308/2 By like they don't look the arlmenicks all over, but only zee that the clipses..be put in as they should be.

†b. of (a) like: = by like at Phrases 1a. Obsolete.

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?1552 T. Churchyard Replicacion to Camels Obiection (single sheet) Of like you are spurblinde, or ye loke not a right.

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 50 Of a like thai purpose to pluck Jupiter out of heaven.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 190 In whiche respect (of like) he gaue to the hundreth, y^e name of the same Towne.

?1611 R. Buckland Embassage from Heauen 59 Of like I had no reason to forbidde you their company, for you are prouident and discreet.

c. with like: see sense 2a.

P2. like for like.

a. As a noun phrase: something done or given in return for something of the same or a similar kind that one has received or suffered. Typically with reference to punishment by retaliation. [Probably after classical Latin par parī referre to do like for like, lit. ‘to bring equal to equal’. Compare also lex talionis n.]

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1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 65 Par pari referto. Do lyke for like.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xx. f. 167 He willeth..that the myndes of his should so much abhorre from desire of recompensing like for like [L. retaliandi], that they should soner suffer doble iniurie to be done to themselues, than desire to reacquite it.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 56 He is presently without any iudgement to haue Legem talionis, that is, like for like, inflicted vpon him.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. lx. 296 In case of talio, or requiting like for like.

1660 H. Fletcher Perfect Politician 185 Lambert with the Right Wing of his Battel fell on the Enemy with great fierceness, giving the first Charge on the Scots Left wing; which they (not flinching a foot) manfully sustained, returning like for like.

1750 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 81/2 Shall we tamely let so desirable an opportunity slip out of our hands, of retorting like for like upon them?

1840 J. F. Cooper Pathfinder I. ix. 140 The affinities of such a character were, as a matter of course, those of like for like.

1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. xxxvi. 71 To requite like with like was assumed as both just and righteous.

1905 J. London War of Classes 146 It is not in the nature of present-day society for men to give like for like, the same for the same.

2000 T. J. Gorringe in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 581/1 The lex talionis (retaliation based on like for like) is most probably an attempt to limit indiscriminate revenge.

b. As an adverbial phrase: in return for something of the same or a similar kind that one has suffered, given, or received; esp. in a retaliatory manner.

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1616 B. Parsons Magistrates Charter 23 As a man hath done & deserued, so it should be done to him, like for like.

1871 G. Meredith in Fortn. Rev. Jan. 88 The Gods alone Remember everlastingly: they strike Remorselessly, and ever like for like.

1881 Gospel Herald 49 332/2 The necessity of paying them back, like for like!

1999 M. Andic in R. L. Perkins Internat. Kierkegaard Comm. XVI. i. 26 You hand on to others what you receive from God, and receive from God what you give to them, like for like.

2007 T. Brooks in W. Irwin Metallica & Philos. xi. 130 With murderers, it's clear. We can punish them like for like—we can execute them.

c. attributive. Usually in form like-for-like.

(a) Based on or deriving from a fundamental similarity between the actions or objects in question.

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1914 Spectator & Methodist Chron. (Melbourne) 18 Dec. 1974/3 Six German residents of New Britain, who brutally assaulted the chairman of our mission,..received a like for like punishment by being flogged at the orders of the military commandant.

1952 Railway Gaz. 7 Mar. 256/1 The excess of like-for-like replacement cost over original cost.

1972 Irish Times 3 Mar. 21/2 In the like-for-like comparison, the cost of servicing an acre of land has increased 100%.

1985 J. Lowe Diary 11 Feb. in J. Symcox 1984–5 Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire (2011) 158 Even when cars have been vandalised, anger has never spilled over into like-for-like retaliation or violence.

2009 P. Lynch Wildlife & Conservation Volunteering iii. 29 Comparing organisations on the basis of cost is less effective than other methods because it is rare to find projects that can be matched on an exact like-for-like basis.

(b) Business. Designating the sales of a company when compared between different years, taking into account only activities which were in effect in both years.

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1986 PR Newswire (Nexis) 30 July Like-for-like sales growth was an impressive 21.9 percent in spite of very low inflation and very intense competition.

1993 Cookson Group Ann. Rep. 1992 1 Turnover decreased in 1992 by 5% from £1,305m to £1.237m, but like-for-like turnover, adjusting for acquisitions, disposals and exchange rate movements, increased by some 3%.

2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Jan. 3 The company's like-for-like sales figure excludes the four new shops opened in 2012 but includes online sales.

P3. colloquial. the likes of: such a person or thing as (that specified); people or things like. Now typically in depreciative contexts, expressing dismay, annoyance, etc., at the person (or object) in question.

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1787 Minor 171 Never more presume for to speak to the likes of me.

1847 H. Melville Omoo lxxvi. 295 Steer clear of the likes of this ballyhoo of blazes as long as ye live.

1872 R. Browning in S. Orr Life & Lett. R. Browning (1891) 292 The second edition is in the press,..2,500 in five months is a good sale for the likes of me.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) 210 Are there no harems still left in Stamboul for the likes of thee to sweep and clean?

1936 C. Brooks Jrnl. 18–19 Jan. (1998) 150 The severe illness of a King means to the likes of us anxiety and care of which the normal citizen has no glimpse.

1972 R. Galton & A. Simpson Loathe Story in Steptoe & Son (BBC TV script) 28 Her mother doesn't like me. She don't want to see her daughter get tied up with the likes of me.

1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 5. 47 The likes of Kinsella just enjoy putting the knife in.

2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 13 The decenter you treat the likes of him the more they'll walk all over you.

单词	like for like
释义	> as lemmas like for like Phrases P1. Phrases with prepositions. See also in like adv. †a. by (the) like: in all likelihood, probably; (also in weaker sense) perhaps, possibly. Cf. belike adv. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1533 in tr. P. Valeriano Pro Sacerdotum Barbis f. 17 Lyke as in the sentence before, some vncleane shauer hath shauen away a worde, so by lyke, here in this pistyll of Alexander, some brayneles felowe hath added to a word. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin original.] 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 337^v Harpalus (who by like had a good insight in suche matiers). 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 330/2 King William..conceyued displeasure against Urbane..and alledged by the like that no..Bishop within hys Realme, should haue respect..to anye Pope. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 73 By like all their ceremonies bee not so auncient. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 89 The whyte rocks or clifs, (by lyke about Douer). 1692 J. Dunton Young-students-libr. 443/1 Several Bishops knew not even how to write their Names, so that they were forced in the Councils to make others Subscribe for them; which by-like was very common, seeing they made no difficulty to confess a thing, which should have covered them with shame. 1767 Gentleman's Mag. June 308/2 By like they don't look the arlmenicks all over, but only zee that the clipses..be put in as they should be. †b. of (a) like: = by like at Phrases 1a. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?1552 T. Churchyard Replicacion to Camels Obiection (single sheet) Of like you are spurblinde, or ye loke not a right. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 50 Of a like thai purpose to pluck Jupiter out of heaven. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 190 In whiche respect (of like) he gaue to the hundreth, y^e name of the same Towne. ?1611 R. Buckland Embassage from Heauen 59 Of like I had no reason to forbidde you their company, for you are prouident and discreet. c. with like: see sense 2a. P2. like for like. a. As a noun phrase: something done or given in return for something of the same or a similar kind that one has received or suffered. Typically with reference to punishment by retaliation. [Probably after classical Latin par parī referre to do like for like, lit. ‘to bring equal to equal’. Compare also lex talionis n.] ΚΠ 1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 65 Par pari referto. Do lyke for like. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xx. f. 167 He willeth..that the myndes of his should so much abhorre from desire of recompensing like for like [L. retaliandi], that they should soner suffer doble iniurie to be done to themselues, than desire to reacquite it. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 56 He is presently without any iudgement to haue Legem talionis, that is, like for like, inflicted vpon him. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. lx. 296 In case of talio, or requiting like for like. 1660 H. Fletcher Perfect Politician 185 Lambert with the Right Wing of his Battel fell on the Enemy with great fierceness, giving the first Charge on the Scots Left wing; which they (not flinching a foot) manfully sustained, returning like for like. 1750 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 81/2 Shall we tamely let so desirable an opportunity slip out of our hands, of retorting like for like upon them? 1840 J. F. Cooper Pathfinder I. ix. 140 The affinities of such a character were, as a matter of course, those of like for like. 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. xxxvi. 71 To requite like with like was assumed as both just and righteous. 1905 J. London War of Classes 146 It is not in the nature of present-day society for men to give like for like, the same for the same. 2000 T. J. Gorringe in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 581/1 The lex talionis (retaliation based on like for like) is most probably an attempt to limit indiscriminate revenge. b. As an adverbial phrase: in return for something of the same or a similar kind that one has suffered, given, or received; esp. in a retaliatory manner. ΚΠ 1616 B. Parsons Magistrates Charter 23 As a man hath done & deserued, so it should be done to him, like for like. 1871 G. Meredith in Fortn. Rev. Jan. 88 The Gods alone Remember everlastingly: they strike Remorselessly, and ever like for like. 1881 Gospel Herald 49 332/2 The necessity of paying them back, like for like! 1999 M. Andic in R. L. Perkins Internat. Kierkegaard Comm. XVI. i. 26 You hand on to others what you receive from God, and receive from God what you give to them, like for like. 2007 T. Brooks in W. Irwin Metallica & Philos. xi. 130 With murderers, it's clear. We can punish them like for like—we can execute them. c. attributive. Usually in form like-for-like. (a) Based on or deriving from a fundamental similarity between the actions or objects in question. ΚΠ 1914 Spectator & Methodist Chron. (Melbourne) 18 Dec. 1974/3 Six German residents of New Britain, who brutally assaulted the chairman of our mission,..received a like for like punishment by being flogged at the orders of the military commandant. 1952 Railway Gaz. 7 Mar. 256/1 The excess of like-for-like replacement cost over original cost. 1972 Irish Times 3 Mar. 21/2 In the like-for-like comparison, the cost of servicing an acre of land has increased 100%. 1985 J. Lowe Diary 11 Feb. in J. Symcox 1984–5 Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire (2011) 158 Even when cars have been vandalised, anger has never spilled over into like-for-like retaliation or violence. 2009 P. Lynch Wildlife & Conservation Volunteering iii. 29 Comparing organisations on the basis of cost is less effective than other methods because it is rare to find projects that can be matched on an exact like-for-like basis. (b) Business. Designating the sales of a company when compared between different years, taking into account only activities which were in effect in both years. ΚΠ 1986 PR Newswire (Nexis) 30 July Like-for-like sales growth was an impressive 21.9 percent in spite of very low inflation and very intense competition. 1993 Cookson Group Ann. Rep. 1992 1 Turnover decreased in 1992 by 5% from £1,305m to £1.237m, but like-for-like turnover, adjusting for acquisitions, disposals and exchange rate movements, increased by some 3%. 2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Jan. 3 The company's like-for-like sales figure excludes the four new shops opened in 2012 but includes online sales. P3. colloquial. the likes of: such a person or thing as (that specified); people or things like. Now typically in depreciative contexts, expressing dismay, annoyance, etc., at the person (or object) in question. ΚΠ 1787 Minor 171 Never more presume for to speak to the likes of me. 1847 H. Melville Omoo lxxvi. 295 Steer clear of the likes of this ballyhoo of blazes as long as ye live. 1872 R. Browning in S. Orr Life & Lett. R. Browning (1891) 292 The second edition is in the press,..2,500 in five months is a good sale for the likes of me. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) 210 Are there no harems still left in Stamboul for the likes of thee to sweep and clean? 1936 C. Brooks Jrnl. 18–19 Jan. (1998) 150 The severe illness of a King means to the likes of us anxiety and care of which the normal citizen has no glimpse. 1972 R. Galton & A. Simpson Loathe Story in Steptoe & Son (BBC TV script) 28 Her mother doesn't like me. She don't want to see her daughter get tied up with the likes of me. 1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 5. 47 The likes of Kinsella just enjoy putting the knife in. 2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 13 The decenter you treat the likes of him the more they'll walk all over you. extracted from liken.¹ < as lemmas
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