| 单词 | a quite other |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa quite other c. With attributive adjectives following the article (esp. the indefinite article). Chiefly with adjectives expressing contrast, such as contrary (see also the quite contrary at Phrases 1), different, opposite, etc. a quite other: quite another (rare). ΚΠ 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. sig. CC.iiijv This secret whispering, a quite contrary kinde of Confession. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. Kv Hauing liberty, either to faine a quite newe matter, or to frame the history, to the most tragicall conueniencie. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. vi. 162 Livius marcht..into the quite opposite quarter. 1661 H. P. Cressy Reflexions Oathes Supremacy 52 It speaks a quite other language. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiii. sig. Ff5 Upon a quite contrary Account than they intended. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 251 Into things of a quite opposite nature. 1846 C. Fox Jrnl. 13 Oct. (1972) 168 Mineral veins, however, a quite different case. 1875 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera V. lx. 348 When the luxuries are produced, it becomes a quite separate question who is to have them. 1955 G. Cansdale Reptiles W. Africa iv. 74 The male Anolis Lizards, belonging to a quite different family living in America. 1973 I. Murdoch Black Prince i. 97 I wanted for once to chatter: not about what had happened of course, but about quite other things. 1977 Gramophone June 31/2 In a quite separate field, that of physics, Percy Wilson's passing will have saddened many friends and associates. 1991 R. Ferguson Henry Miller xii. 239 His conduct of the campaign reveals a quite other side to the bone-idle, talented, sponging drifter portrayed in the book as ‘Henry Miller’. < as lemmas |
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