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单词 neither more nor less than
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neither more nor less than
b. neither more nor less than and variants: exactly, precisely, (that) and nothing else. [Compare French ni plus ni moins que (earlier ne plus ne moins que, 1532 or earlier in Middle French), ni plus ni moins.]
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a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xvi. 440 (MED) For his vesage As brenneng Fyr it was To him there semeng, neþer more ne las.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 8 (MED) Boyle hom up with alle, no more ne mynne.
a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) 305 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 91 (MED) For my desyr is noþer mor ne lesse, But my seruysse to do, for your plesaunce.
1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) v. 164 Whose number was neither more nor lesse then the Poets nine Muses.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 80 The Edification whereof would be best promoted by attributing to those Workmen neither more nor less than their Due.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. i. 110 The drama, which he will have contain neither more nor less than five Acts. View more context for this quotation
1790 F. Burney Diary Aug. (1842) V. 152 He left me neither more nor less than deluged in tears.
1828 Ld. Grenville Sinking Fund 45 The farmer who has sold his wheat at its market price, has obtained for it neither more nor less than a just equivalent.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. xviii. 370 The first step which I took..was a very bold one. It was neither more nor less than the establishment of a shop for the sale of Testaments.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. xi. 88 By a ‘gentleman of fortune’ they plainly meant neither more nor less than a common pirate.
1900 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 462 The ‘lucid matter’ of space is neither more nor less than star-spawn.
1947 H. Bongers Hist. & Princ. Vocab. Control i. iii. 56 The vocabulary of a language consists of:..Units neither more nor less than single words written without a break... These have been conveniently termed ‘monologs’.
1968 P. Martin tr. M. Pallottino Meaning of Archaeol. 160 The people of the Mycenaean civilization..were neither more nor less than the forebears of the Greeks of history.
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