| 单词 | near the mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnear the mark c. figurative. near the mark: narrowly failing to attain a goal or objective; close to (attaining) a goal or objective; (also) close to the truth. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > closely related to the point near the mark1581 from the same stable1950 1581 W. Charke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iv. Dd iiij Rone not in generall discourses, that come not neere the marke. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 114 There is..great difference among writers..yet I will endeauour to goe as neere the marke as can be. 1725 D. Eaton Let. 24 July (1971) 34 But I believe your Lordship will find that in this estimate I have come very near the mark. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. ix. 284 As when two Doves,..or as when Strephon and Phillis (for that comes nearest to the Mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary Grove [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxii. 411 We had drifted too much to allow of our dead reckoning being anywhere near the mark. 1885 J. K. Jerome On Stage 6 Five or six pounds per week would be near the mark. 1932 Punch 23 Nov. p. xxv (advt.) One of the new ‘light-weights’ at 30/- is pretty near the mark. 1988 M. Forster Elizabeth Barrett Browning x. 174 They..indulged in banter which would have been harmless if it had not come unwittingly so near the mark. (to be) above (also beneath, near, under, up to, within, etc.) the mark b. figurative. A fixed or recognized standard or level. Frequently in phrases, as (to be) above (also beneath, near, under, up to, within, etc.) the mark. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > criterion rulec1384 meteyard?1531 touchstone?1531 plumb line1551 plummet1553 metewanda1568 touch1581 stone of touch1604 criterion1622 scale1626 criteriuma1631 measure1641 judge1642 criterie1660 foot-rule1662 mark1765 point of reference1772 metera1825 reference point1849 yardstick1869 benchmark1884 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [adjective] > to a standard (to be) above (also beneath, near, under, up to, within, etc.) the mark1821 1765 S. Foote Commissary iii. 56 He is rather under your mark, I am afraid; not above twenty at most. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 63 Does not Gray's poetry, Sir, tower above the common mark? 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1984) 11 He feared that Mr. Nicholas, whose mind was not yet up to the mark of the times, would undertake the answer. 1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 2 Feb. 286 If prices fall a great deal lower than their present mark. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. vi. 263 It is, if anything, rather below than above the mark. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 336/2 Say half a million turned over in a year, sir,..and you're within the mark. 1861 G. J. Goschen Theory Foreign Exchanges 14 The indebtedness under the present hypothesis is not excessive but under the mark. 1861 F. W. Robinson No Church I. 309 He made the sum come pretty near the mark—just a five pound note out. 1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 175 A vanity Which finds the universe beneath its mark. 1888 W. E. Norris Rogue ix There wouldn't be much excuse for me if I weren't up to the mark. 1937 W. H. Saumarez Smith Let. 11 Apr. in Young Man's Country (1977) ii. 67 Today, I am not feeling up to the mark, so I've not gone to office. 1988 Which? Feb. 80/1 If you've bought something which isn't up to the mark..what can you do? < as lemmas |
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