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单词 little or none
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little or none
b. little or none.
(a) As adjectival phrase: hardly any ——; = little or no —— at Phrases 3c. In later use chiefly before vowels or h (compare none adj.). Obsolete.
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c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 443 (MED) Private almes..dos littel gode or none to donor of siche almes.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 16 Holi Writt ȝeueth litil or noon liȝt therto at al.
1478 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1478/6/81 Throu the quhilk thare is litle or nane alde moneye..gangande.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 136 (MED) Into the land of Irlande he arryuete, and lytill or noone esploit dit.
1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. A4v The Indians of that Ile had litle or none industrie or practise to gather or drawe golde out of the mines.
1666 J. Faireclough Let. 5 May in V. Greatrakes Brief Acct. 73 His hand had little or none effect upon the Lady that first brought me to him.
1805 M. Wood Hist. Eng. lvii. 193 Gustavus..prosecuted the war vigorously by sea and land against Russia, but, owing to her superiority of force, with little or none effect.
a1847 J. W. Dallam Deaf Spy (1848) xii. 72/2 They beheld their missiles fall around their foes with little or none effect.
(b) As pronominal phrase: hardly anything or any (of), only a very small quantity or portion (of).
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1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 1129 Off purwiaunce thai fand litill or nane.
1648 L. P. Strange-Predictions Catericke 8 For Ammunition he could finde little or none.
1710 W. Salmon Botanologia I. cccxlv. 490/1 A Root..which sends up some few Leaves,..yet when Planted in Gardens has little or none at all.
1773 Monthly Rev. Nov. 411 A common, tame chalybeate, containing little or none of that spirit which distinguishes the Pyrmont.
a1823 J. Ewart Jrnl. Stay Cape Good Hope (1970) 32 Little or none of the country has as yet been explored.
1874 S. F. Baird et al. N. Amer. Birds III. 48 Colors ashy-gray and pure white, with little or none of fulvous.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind ii. viii. 145 Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, for little or none came through the blockade.
1992 P. O'Brian Truelove i. 30 It was a quiet meal, with little or none of the shouting and banging of mess-kids that usually greeted the Sunday plum-duff and the grog.
(c) As adverbial phrase, followed by the (the adv. 1) and comparative: in hardly any way, to hardly any extent. Compare none adv. 1b.
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1810 Philos. Mag. 35 11 Instances often occur, of men being stifled by the azotic gas, who were little or none the worse from the effects of the explosion.
1826 Oriental Herald Oct. 148 They have either absorbed or dissipated them, leaving the world little or none the better.
1872 S. Butler Erewhon xx. 184 Some doubtless received damage..; but many seemed little or none the worse, and some almost the better.
1918 T. Teakle Spirit Lake Massacre xxii. 177 By the time the expedition arrived..he had awakened and appeared to be little or none the worse for his unusual experience.
1997 Museums Jrnl. May 22/3 The uninformed visitor will leave little or none the wiser about Rachman.
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