单词 | or other |
释义 | > as lemmasor other a. With singular sense. (a) With an indefinite or negative determiner, as an, any, no, none, one, some, etc.; (b) In or other (formerly occasionally also † and other).For the development of another as a word in itself, see another adj.; cf. sense A. 5b, B. 6a(b). ΚΠ OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxx. 262 Sum ærendraca com to Iobe, and cwæð... Ða com sum oðer and cwæð. OE tr. Alexander's Let. to Aristotle (1995) §13. 232 Þa ic þæt wæter bergde ða wæs hit biterre & grimre to drincanne þonne ic æfre ænig oðer bergde. c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 340 That dured ȝer and other. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccx. 193 The barons sent to hym o time and other. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. xii Certaynly I nor none other canne give the Jugement. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxvii. sig. Mviii The forme..is nat expressed by the sayde autor, nor none other that I haue yet radde. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sbizzarine, to obtaine ones longing by doing some mad pranke or other. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 637 To one ydols tuytion and protection or other. 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 203 My Mother..was by some one or other counselled to send [etc.]. 1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play vii Forke is, that when you see two of the enemies Noble-men standing in the same ranke, and but one house betwixt them, advance a pawne, guarded with an other, unto the middle house before them both, and you may commonly take one of them. 1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant viii, in Poems (new ed.) 20 Or any other of that heav'nly brood. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 446. ¶4 Some time or other we may be at leisure. 1786 T. Jefferson Let. 8 Feb. in Papers (1954) IX. 264 Irregularities committing by some one or other of them which will constantly keep us on an ill footing with foreign nations. 1801 J. Austen Let. 14 Jan. (1995) 73 Hardly a day passes in which we do not have some visitor or other. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick i. 5 I have the satisfaction of knowing..that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way. 1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 55 God will bring His people out of the trouble some way or other. 1919 J. Conrad Arrow of Gold iii. 142 How talkative she was, this maid with unsealed lips! For some reason or other this last statement of hers brought me immense comfort. 1967 C. Jackson Second-hand Life 147 Still, he was the man for her, and she felt there would be no other. 1992 Gramophone Jan. 42/2 I have played this perhaps more during the year than any other, save for Pletnev's transcription of scenes from Sleeping Beauty. < as lemmas |
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