| 单词 | one of us |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone of us b. one of us: a member of our group, our kind of person; spec. † (a) a prostitute (obsolete); (b) a homosexual person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > exclusive > one belonging to one of us1785 exclusive1825 insider1848 ingrouper1939 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue One of us, one of my cousins, a woman of the town, a harlot. 1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain ix. 94 The rider's..great object should be to pass in a crowd, either unnoticed, or to be taken for ‘one of us’. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xi. 188 ‘Make Lucy one of us,’ she said... ‘Lucy is becoming wonderful.’ 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad i. 13 Underworld men and women..refer to themselves as ‘wide people’ or ‘one of us’. a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xvi. 185 I divined that he was homosexual, or as we put it, ‘one of us’. 1976 Times 27 May 16/4 It would go a long way towards helping..to understand..if others would stop saying ‘New Commonwealth’ when they mean something like ‘coffee-coloured’ and ‘Old Commonwealth’ when they mean..‘One of us’. one of us c. As the object of a preposition (or other governing word or phrase). one of us: see one pron. 7a. ΚΠ eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) iv. 7 Signatum est super nos lumen uultus tui domine : getacnad is ofer us leht ondwlitan ðines dryhten. OE Blickling Homilies 115 Æghwonon þes middangeard flyhþ from us mid mycelre biternesse, & we him fleondum fylgeaþ. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Initio Creaturae (Vesp. A.xxii) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 229 He com tu us [OE Royal to us], þat he wolde for hus [OE Royal for us] deað þrowian. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12620 Þu art hæxt ouer us. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 102 No longeþ noþyng to ous. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 5 (MED) Good is that we also..among ous hiere Do wryte of newe som matiere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4533 (MED) Aiþer of hus a drem we sau. ?1403 in T. F. Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. (1879) ii. 66 That sche becum oure auoket and..pray for hus. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aviv I rede we cast ws betuene How best is to done. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 190 The bataill broucht on bordour hard vs by. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Fiii He sparit notht his aune sone bot gaiff hime for his al. 1584 Allen in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 116 The whole worlde did runne from Christe..after Edwarde the vjth with us into Zwynglianisme. 1659 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1920) IV. 95 3 Spanish men of warre..came vp with vs and fired at vs. 1662 A. Cokayne Trag. Ovid v. v. 132 in Poems Let us go home, send for a Priest of Hymens; And presently each Couple on's be married. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 374. ⁋1 So most of us take Occasion to sit still. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxvii. 172 We have but one mind between us. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xv. 319 He hasna settled his account..wi' huz for sax months. 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific xiii. 184 Our enemy numbers three times us. 1880 Ld. Tennyson Battle of Brunanburh v Fiercely we hack'd at the flyers before us. 1922 Woman's World (Chicago) Nov. 38/2 Most of us understand that bad teeth cause ulcers and Pyorrhea or Rigg's disease. 1975 I. Murdoch Word Child 70 There are two of us and only one of him. 1993 F. Collymore Man who loved attending Funerals 96 We are not..rejoicing that the man whom we knew in his boyhood days is gone from us for ever. < as lemmas |
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