请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 a man
释义

> as lemmas

a man
a. a man (used quasi-pronominally): anyone, someone, one (but frequently with implied reference to the male sex only). Cf. man pron., men pron., me pron.2a man's self, a man's own: oneself, one's own.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > man > [noun] > any man
a manc1225
anything in trousers1858
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 51 (MED) Ha..schal lihte se lahe into a monnes þeowdom.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1533 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 150 Ðwane a man is In mest soruwe and teone, þanne is ore louerdes grace next.
c1390 Form of Confession (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 344 (MED) Whuche are a Monnes fyue wittes? Heering, Seoing, Smellyng, Tastyng, and Touching.
a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 40 (MED) Meeknes..is not ellis bot a trewe knowyng & felyng of a mans self as he is.
1477–8 Bk. of Curtesye (Caxton) (1882) l. 283 Who that vsith a mannes tale to breke Letteth vncurteysly alle the audyence.
?c1500 Digby Plays 19 Her, virgynes, as many as a man wyll, shall holde tapers in ther handes.
1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 10 Enuie..is best extinguished by declaring a mans selfe in his ends, rather to seeke merite then fame.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 39 Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellowes.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 306 To Praise a Mans selfe, cannot be Decent..: But to Praise a Mans Office or Profession, he may doe it with Good Grace.
1637 P. Heylyn Briefe Answer Burton 53 A man would think that you had said enough against your soueraigne.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 14 A Man would expect..to find some considerable Antiquities.
1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. vi. p. xliii A man may be weak all his life long, without experiencing any disease.
1842 Ld. Tennyson You ask me Why 8 The land, where..A man may speak the thing he will.
1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 426/1 By turning an arrow and pressing a button, a man may in half a minute order a cocktail, towels, [etc.].
1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society v. 135 A man can acquire wealth by working in the White economy as a wage labourer.
1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors vi. 53 What happens when a man can really handle himself: people wanna buy a man a beer.
extracted from mann.1int.
to a man
j. to a man: without exception; including every person.
ΚΠ
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 224 They might haue had the killing of all his army to a man.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ¶1 The ordinary Quack-Doctors..are to a Man Impostors.
1764 Ann. Reg. 1763 159 The soldiers,..immediately after roll calling,..assembled to a man.
1838 E. Flagg Far West I. 20 The former dwellers in Kentucky..were exterminated to a man.
1894 S. Baring-Gould Deserts S. France II. 228 He cut them down almost to a man.
1958 M. L. King Stride toward Freedom iv. 64 At the words ‘All in favor of the motion stand’, every person to a man stood up.
1990 Gay Times Dec. 11/1 To a man, they went on about how George was ‘unique’.
extracted from mann.1int.
to a man
a. Indicating a limit or point attained in degree or amount, or in division or analysis, and thus expressing degree of completeness or exactitude: As far as; to the point of; down to (an ultimate element or item), as in to a hair (hair n. Phrases 3), to the last man; to a man (including every man, without exception); within (a limit of variation or error), as to an inch, to a day. (See also quots. s.v. down adv. 18a.)
ΚΠ
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xx. 42 Heo wel drohtnode to anum mæle fæstende.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 173 Þei..do me faste frydayes to bred and to water.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21527 Of he kest al to his serk.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum To the vttermost peny, ad assem.
1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iii. sig. E3v Ile quote him to a tittle.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 141 Pand: Youle remember your brothers excuse? Par: To a hayre. View more context for this quotation
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 224 They might haue had the killing of all his army to a man.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 59 That he would root them out to the verie name.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xi. 103 Sir Tomkyn..swore he was her's to the last drop of his blood.
1779 Mirror No. 34. ⁋5 He was generally punctual to a minute.
1867 J. A. Froude Erasmus & Luther in Short Stud. ii. 99 The bishops were hostile to a man.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 349 Balances are made sensitive to the fraction of a grain.
extracted from toprep.conj.adv.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/3 11:35:27