| 单词 | one's stint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's stint b. one's stint: an amount which one has resolved not to exceed. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > limit or threshold endc825 one's stint1602 mark1893 threshold1920 1602 N. Breton Poste with Madde Packet Lett. I. sig. Bv For apparel, I wil keepe my stint, and care for no fond fashion. 1683 H. Savile Let. 3 May in A. Morrison Catal. Autograph Lett. (1892) 1st Ser. VI. 80 There I lost last night my twenty guinnyes, wch is my stint. 1732 J. Swift Let. to Gay 4 May My stint [of wine] in company is a pint at noon, and half as much as night. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 230 Three rubbers were our stint; as we were often game and game in the last before victory declared itself. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 60 I can't afford half-crowns every day. A shilling is my stint for such jobs. < as lemmas |
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