单词 | one's type |
释义 | > as lemmasone's type c. A person of a certain (specified or implicit) character; one's type, the sort of person to whom one is attracted (usually in neg. or interrog. contexts). Also simply, a person; as a gallicism, also with pronunciation /tiːp/, derogatory. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities thingc1225 headc1300 vesselc1384 soul1498 sprite?1507 spirit1559 stick1682 character1749 fish1751 hand1756 subject1797 person1807 good1809 specimen1817 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 proposition1894 cookie1913 type1922 city1946 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. 606 She also was Spanish or half so, types that wouldn't do things by halves, passionate abandon of the south. 1930 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 327 I played piquet with our schoolmaster... That was a type upon whom our War had done bad work. 1931 K. Boyle Plagued by Nightingale xv. 123 Luc could fish with Nicholas... It's exactly what the poor type would prefer anyway! 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxix. 216 ‘Low types,’ said the old Etonian, ‘very low types.’ 1934 F. B. Cuthrell Innocent Bystander vii. 130 Richardson did not interest her, he was not her ‘type’. 1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path ii. i. 127 You're the actor type, aren't you? 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ii. 41 It didn't do Fisher any good with the R.A.F. types. 1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle i. v. 28 ‘Oh, by the way, do you know these types?’ and he introduced the two men with him. 1956 ‘A. Bridge’ Lighthearted Quest 199 I went to look for Colin in that red-haired type's house. 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiii. 250 You wouldn't like him... He's not your type. He's a little fat man. 1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes i. 16 Although an intrepid explorer type, he made a hasty exit. 1968 M. Jones Survivor iii. 51 ‘I'm asking you if you think she's at all his type.’ Stuart shrugged. ‘I shouldn't care to say what Martin's type is. Come to think of it, I'd say he has no type.’ 1971 D. E. Westlake I gave at Office 136 I was not alone in the room. Three army types were there..tall, fat, khaki-uniformed. 1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place iv. 142 That type... He is a brigand! 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion ii. ii. 145 I've always thought you were very beautiful, Annabel. You always were just my type. 1979 A. Fraser King Charles II vii. 102 These were scarcely the types to risk life and limb. 1981 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel is Puzzled xi. 113 ‘Type over here... He recognises it.’ The ‘type over here’ was a man about thirty-five with long blond hair. < as lemmas |
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