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单词 not only
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not only
3. In correlative constructions using not only: usually with contrast expressed by but, but also, also, etc., but occasionally implied (see also but conj. 11b(b)).
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a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 890 (MED) Ne wasch nouȝt onliche my ffet, bote boþe hond & heued.
c1350 Ayenbite (1866) App. 265 Naȝt onlyche beuore gode ac be-uore alle men.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 6367 (MED) Noght onliche of the wommen tho, Bot of the chaste men also.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 338 He wroȝt noȝt anly wit his hande, bot sayde wit worde.
?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. vii. f. 4v (MED) Hem liketh..to þynke sum time of þe blissed name of Ihesu..& nauȝht only þat name, bute alle oþer preyeres.
1515 R. Pace in J. S. Brewer Reign Hen. VIII (1884) I. xi. 270 Surely he would have out of your chapel not children only but also men.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. ciiijv Not onely now..but also after.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 18 We had time not only to see the Town, but the places circumjacent also.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. vi. 95 I was not only endowed with the Faculty of Speech, but likewise with some Rudiments of Reason.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 25 They not only tell lies but bad lies.
1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. iii. 178 Mr. Harling not only demanded a quiet house, he demanded all his wife's attention.
1987 P. McCabe Bad News at Black Rock ix. 169 Collins not only did reviews, she incorporated bites from interviews into pieces.
2001 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 16/1 I want the courts to think very carefully not only about perhaps not using custody but, if they can, issuing shorter sentence lengths.
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