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单词 lo and behold
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lo and behold
(a) In early use, an interjection of vague meaning, corresponding approximately to the modern O! or Oh! Obsolete. (b) Used to direct attention to the presence or approach of something, or to what is about to be said; = Look! See! Behold! Frequently in lo and behold (usually jocular).
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > call for attention [interjection]
loOE
lookOE
heya1225
halec1300
notac1392
what hoc1405
yoa1475
behold1535
hist1599
nota benea1721
see1863
psst1875
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [interjection] > emphasizing a following statement
whatOE
loOE
lookOE
aha1225
loura1225
halec1300
why1545
if (also and) you pleasec1563
ahem1606
I say1613
ahey1696
sithee1828
please it you1881
lookit1907
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene
loOE
spi?c1225
how mischance——?c1330
with mischance!c1330
by my hoodc1374
by my sheath1532
by the mouse-foot1550
what the (also a) goodyear1570
bread and salt1575
by Jove1575
in (good) truly1576
by these hilts1598
by the Lord Harry1693
by the pody cody1693
by jingo!1694
splutter1707
by jing!1786
I snore1790
declare1811
by the hokey1825
shiver my timbers1834
by the (great) horn spoon1842
upon my Sam1879
for goodness' sake1885
yerra1892
for the love of Mike1896
by the hokey fiddle1922
knickers1971
OE Beowulf 1700 Þæt, la, mæg secgan se þe soð ond riht fremeð on folce.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) iii. 7 He cwæð to him; La næddrena cyn [etc.].
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 89 Lahwet scal þis beon?
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 89 La hu ne beað þa þet here specað galileisce?
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17964 Þiss blisse iss min lafuliwiss.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 2454 Low, þe ȝete of eche lif abit te al iopenet!
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 77 Lo, þe loomb of God: lo him þat takiþ awey the synnes of þis world.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 4 Loo, here þe lettere..in latyn and in ebrew.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16411 And sua it es, la god it wijt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16367 Pilat said, ‘los, her yur king!’
a1400–50 Alexander 399 Lo, maister, slike a myschefe!
c1425 Crafte of Nombryng (E.E.T.S.) 11 Þou schalle do way þe hier figure & write þere a cifer, as lo an Ensampull.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccliii. (1482) 325 Lo what a mariage was this as to the comparison of that other.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iv. 77 Open: lo, here the duke.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 574/1 When they suffer wrong, they cannot forgeue loe, and when men take away their goodes they be angry, so they be lo.
1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 53 For lymmer lawdis and litle lassis lo [rhymes scho, þrto, do] Will argun bayt wt bischop, preist, and freir.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D6 His dearest loue the faire Fidessa loe Is there possessed of the traytour vile.
1611 Bible (King James) Hag. i. 9 Ye looked for much, and loe it came to litle. View more context for this quotation
1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 167 Loe here wee haue expresse mention of seuerall sorts of worlds.
1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. §34 Lo! This is what you call ‘so great, so unaccountable’.
1758 C. Wesley & J. Wesley Hymns of Intercession 32 Lo! He comes with clouds descending.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 101 The prince drew near; where lo! an altar stood.
1808 Lady Lyttelton Let. June in Corr. (1912) i. 20 Hartington..had just told us how hard he had worked all the morning..when, lo and behold! M. Deshayes himself appeared.
1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning II. iii. v. 144 The fair bride was skipping down the middle..when, lo and behold! the whiskered gentleman..advanced..and cried—‘La voilà!
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xxii. 234 What does he do, but, lo and behold you, he goes into a perfumer's shop.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 400 Lo and behold! A frequent exclamation in colloquial narration, expressive of a certain degree of wonder and surprise.
1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám vii. 2 The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
1887 Cent. Mag. Jan. 446/2 Lo an' behold, thar was Lawson at the spring a-werryin' Milly.
1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ii. 60 And then—lo and behold—it was there all the time.
1947 T. Williams Streetcar Named Desire x. 151 You come in here and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light-bulb with a paper lantern, and lo and behold the place has turned into Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile!
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