| 单词 | of all things |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof all things P9. of all things: of all conceivable possibilities (often parenthetically implying that the eventuality is surprising or unexpected). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adverb] > without warning on, in, or at unwarec1070 unwarec1100 unwaresa1122 uniwaresa1200 unwarelyc1200 on uniware1297 unwarneda1325 unadvised1390 unbewares1483 unbeware1489 unwarnishedly1513 unawarnistly1533 unadvisedlyc1535 unawares1535 at unwaresa1547 unwarnedly1563 at unawares1564 unwarily1569 at unaware1598 unaware1667 of all things1778 out of a clear (blue) sky1875 out of the blue1879 unawaredly1895 1778 H. Brooke Charitable Assoc. ii. ii, in Coll. Plays & Poems IV. 235 Butl. I heard it whisper'd, indeed, as how Master Kindly had got some jealous whim in the noggin of him, touching our young mistress being come before her day. Cook. Whew—of all things!—Jealous of our young mistress, sayst thou? 1834 F. D. Hemans Let. 4 July in H. F. Chorley Memorials Mrs. Hemans (1836) II. vii. 317 I was only sorry that one dwelling, and that, of all things, a cottage orné, stood on its bank. 1857 W. B. Bernard Life's Trial i. ii. 13 This danger of the bank—the Colonel's bank, of all things—the old Carmarthen bank that we all thought as lasting as the banks of Newfoundland. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. ii. xii. 170 Well, well, of all things! Well, I'll be damned! 1934 P. Bowles Let. Mar. in In Touch (1994) 133 The music is facile and Lisztlike, with pages of Weill thrown in, and of all things, the 3rd movement of my Sonata included practically verbatim as to the first theme! 1997 C. McPherson Weir 31 And the priest took us into the sacristy, and the job, of all things was to dig a grave in the yard. < as lemmas |
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