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单词 never a
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never a
a. never a: not a single, no —— at all. Cf. ne'er a adj.never a deal: see never-a-deal adv. and n. never a whit: see whit n.1
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [phrase] > nothing, no one, not any
never onec1175
never ac1300
never kinsc1300
no kinsc1350
for odd or evenc1425
never anyc1522
penny nor paternoster1528
never a one1534
not a soul1568
neither top nor toe1610
no flesh1663
neither horn nor hoof1664
no sort of‥1736
no nothing1815
c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 104 Ne herde we neure a word.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2685 On þe feld was neuere a polk Þat it ne stod of blod so ful.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iii. 102 There was never a myle but that they iusted togyder.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 99 He had never a drye threde about hym.
1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. Dd.iv She had neuer a goune to putte on her backe but of a stale cutte.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 101 There were seuenteen boats cast away.., and neuer a man saued.
1666 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 178 I must beg a copy of those papers.., having never a duplicate by me.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ii. 56 They..Whisper'd a Dutchess, and spoke never a Word.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. 149 They have never an university, but an academy of wits.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose v. in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 86 Did you not put bread and cheese into a man's mouth, when he had never a stomach whereunto to transmit the same?
1864 G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 263 He still said never a word about the treasure.
1907 R. W. Service Songs of Sourdough (1908) 18 A broken wreck with a craze for ‘hooch’, and never a cent to my name.
1946 New Statesman 1 June 402/2 A thousand customers have I told this day there is never a fowl to be had.
1993 J. Merrill Different Person i. 6 My poems remained verbal artifacts..set on the page with never a thought of their being uttered by a living voice.
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