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单词 rough as they run
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rough as they run
b. rough as it runs (and variants): in its raw, unadorned, or imperfect state; just as it is. Similarly rough as they run, etc. Obsolete.
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1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Introd. sig. A2v I have no leisure, and less disposition to give it a second draught. Let it go, rough as it runs.
1702 Compar. between Two Stages 22 We'll proceed from the first Celebrated Comedy..and so hand 'em down rough as they run, good and bad, to this time.
a1704 T. Brown Acct. Conversat. Liberty of Conscience in Duke of Buckingham Misc. Wks. (1705) II. i. 129 If you don't like me rough, as I run, fare you well, Madam.
1769 London Mag. Oct. 531/1 Take it [sc. a story], therefore, unembellished as it runs, and recommend it to the serious perusal of [etc.].
1817 G. Colman Hist. Elsmere & Rosa II. ix. 245 When he sells a lot of pigs all together and no picking, he makes a bargain with the purchaser to take them ‘rough as they run’.
1834 Morning Chron. 5 May Many a smile and right good ‘guffaw’ is lost by his absence, in a fresh taste of him, ‘rough as he runs’.
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