| 单词 | nothing in the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnothing in the world b. nothing in the world. ΚΠ OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 39 Us nan þingc on worulde fram Gode ne gehremme.] a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 269 (MED) He shall so be deffouled that ther ne shall nothinge in the worlde hym warantise. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 244 Nothing in the world could worse haue becomen them. 1638 J. Kirke Seven Champions of Christendome i. l. 142 Wee doe nothing in the world but fight; he kils me two or three times in an houre. 1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus in R. L'Estrange 20 Sel. Colloquies (new ed.) v. 53 The Broth was nothing in the world but Water bewitched. 1748 H. Walpole Let. 26 May (1846) II. 256 I meant nothing in the world by wild, but the thoughtlessness of a boy of nineteen. 1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One iii. 44 There is nothing in the world I wish for so much. 1840 O. W. Holmes in W. C. Bryant Landmark Anthologies 227 We've nothing in the world to do But just to walk about. 1898 H. James Turn of Screw iii, in Two Magics 26 His indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent viii. 229 Poor Stevie had nothing in the world he could call his own except his mother's heroism and unscrupulousness. 1996 Premiere Feb. 83/1 There's nothing in the world as bad as a bad drunk act. < as lemmas |
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