英语词汇“of this description”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. The aggregate of qualities or features that marks out or may be used to describe a particular type of person or thing; character, nature. Chiefly in of this (also that, etc.) description (as a postmodifier): having the specified character or nature.Earlier currency of this sense is perhaps indicated by quot. c1405² at sense 1a, although the sense in that quot. may be an account of defining characteristics, rather than the defining characteristics themselves.

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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 299 Pay him six thousand..before a friend of this discription shall lose a haire.

1637 tr. J. Rüff Expert Midwife iii. iv. 93 Give her seven Pills of this description following.

1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xviii. §10 Offences of this description may well be called anomalous.

1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 177 The rabbit keeper informing me that those which had already had a litter were more certain of breeding than those which had not; I determined to make a trial of one of this description.

1800 Times 15 Apr. 1/2 It is particularly requested that no Place Broker, or any person of the like description, will answer this Advertisement.

1864 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 306 The man must be a roué of the worst description.

1879 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts I. 33 The drainings..are transferred to a pan similar in description to the mixing pan.

1901 McClure's Mag. Feb. 370/1 The rods and reels in tuna fishing are of the finest description.

1983 M. Nazir-Ali Islam, Christian Perspective ii. 41 Even today there are many sincere followers of religious sects whose leaders are charlatans of the worst description.

2014 Land (Nexis) 10 July 83 There is a shortage of quality steers weighing more than 300kg, and that was reflected in the keen competition for the few cattle of that description penned.

单词	of this description
释义	> as lemmas of this (also that, etc.) description a. The aggregate of qualities or features that marks out or may be used to describe a particular type of person or thing; character, nature. Chiefly in of this (also that, etc.) description (as a postmodifier): having the specified character or nature.Earlier currency of this sense is perhaps indicated by quot. c1405² at sense 1a, although the sense in that quot. may be an account of defining characteristics, rather than the defining characteristics themselves. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 299 Pay him six thousand..before a friend of this discription shall lose a haire. View more context for this quotation 1637 tr. J. Rüff Expert Midwife iii. iv. 93 Give her seven Pills of this description following. 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xviii. §10 Offences of this description may well be called anomalous. 1797 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 87 177 The rabbit keeper informing me that those which had already had a litter were more certain of breeding than those which had not; I determined to make a trial of one of this description. 1800 Times 15 Apr. 1/2 It is particularly requested that no Place Broker, or any person of the like description, will answer this Advertisement. 1864 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 306 The man must be a roué of the worst description. 1879 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts I. 33 The drainings..are transferred to a pan similar in description to the mixing pan. 1901 McClure's Mag. Feb. 370/1 The rods and reels in tuna fishing are of the finest description. 1983 M. Nazir-Ali Islam, Christian Perspective ii. 41 Even today there are many sincere followers of religious sects whose leaders are charlatans of the worst description. 2014 Land (Nexis) 10 July 83 There is a shortage of quality steers weighing more than 300kg, and that was reflected in the keen competition for the few cattle of that description penned. extracted from descriptionn. < as lemmas
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