| 单词 | not to mention |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to mention —— a. not to mention ——: used to refer to an additional fact or point which reinforces the speaker's case (a rhetorical device suggesting that the full strength of the speaker's argument is not being presented). ΚΠ 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 Not to mention the learned correspondence which you hold in forreigne parts. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. i. 439 Not to mention several others, Carracio is said to have assisted Aretine. 1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1850) II. Pref. 5 Not to mention the multitudes who read merely for the sake of talking [etc.]. 1839 J. S. Blackie in Foreign Q. Rev. 23 279 How the finest lines in Milton (not to mention Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge) have been smothered and mangled by this curious race of syllable counters, no student of English poetry requires to be told. 1871 Overland Monthly Oct. 310/2 The Mission owned some eighty thousand head of cattle then, and over seventy thousand sheep; not to mention a small matter of five or six thousand horses, and about an equal number of mules. 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air ii. 41 There were several navigable gas air-ships, not to mention balloons, in the air. 1958 J. Wain Contenders iv. 68 This gallery was to put on a one-man show and give everyone a chance to see my work.., not to mention buy it and make me rich. 1989 W. Belasco Appetite for Change ix. 215 This was a cuisine considerably less massified than Le Menu, not to mention Swanson. < as lemmas |
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