| 单词 | better-equipped | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbetter-equipped  a.   Combining with participles with the sense ‘in a better way or manner’, (also) ‘more fully, more’ to form adjectives, as  better-behaved,  better-balanced,  better-born,  better-considered,  better-dressed,  better-educated,  better-equipped,  better-informed,  better-knowing,  better-known,  better-loved,  better-organized,  better-regulated, etc. Cf. best adj., n.1, and adv. Compounds 1a(a),  Compounds 1a(b).Frequently forming comparatives of corresponding compounds with well. ΚΠ a1375						 (c1350)						    William of Palerne 		(1867)	 l. 1491 (MED)  				A beter bi-loued barn was neuer born. c1405						 (c1387–95)						    G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 		(Hengwrt)	 		(2003)	 l. 344  				A bettre envyned man was neuere noon. c1449    R. Pecock Repressor 		(1860)	 193  				With lasse labour and cost mai be had the perfiter and fuller and better representing ymage of the same thing. 1595    tr.  ‘J. Borget’ Divels Legend sig. A3v  				That great, faire, well cut, and better combed beard. 1616    G. Markham tr.  C. Estienne et al.  Maison Rustique 		(rev. ed.)	  v. xvii. 549  				To resort to the better-knowing husbands. 1630    Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. lxxi. 177  				No Law bindes vs to read all; but the more we can take in, and digest, the better-liking must the minds needs be. 1660    H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness  i. v. 11  				In what fitter, more significant or better-becoming way could it be expressed then already it is in the Beginning of that Gospel? 1677    tr.  A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 23  				Such Gentlemen..as thereby become better-affected to the Venetian Nobility. 1697    J. Dryden tr.  Virgil Georgics  iv, in  tr.  Virgil Wks. 126  				For Empire he design'd, Is better  born.       View more context for this quotation 1709    Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 80  				An honest Heart is only a more cunning one: and Honesty and good Nature, a more deliberate, or better regulated Self-Love. 1756    M. Calderwood Jrnl. 		(1884)	 9 June i. 8  				I am Scots, and the Scots and Welch are near relations, and much better born than the English. 1760    Mod. Part Universal Hist. XVII. vii. 59  				A race of mulattoes soon sprung up, more healthy than the European women, better-liked, and more congenial to the blacks. 1784    Polit Mag. Apr. 253/2  				Asking them to trace back the building of Gour..or of the better known Palibothra of the ancients. 1791    J. Bentham Let. c30 Apr. in  Corr. 		(1981)	 IV. 270  				There was not a better behaved young woman in the whole parish. 1817    W. Scott Rob Roy I. x. 250  				Neglecting the minor and better-balanced chances of the game. 1820    W. Scott Abbot II. viii. 268  				To cumber our better-advised devotions. 1826    S. Smith in  Edinb. Rev. Dec. 85  				His awe of better dressed men and better taught men. 1855    E. C. Gaskell North & South I. v. 64  				To learn his change of opinion..from her better-informed child. 1856    Farmer's Mag. Nov. 431  				A more matured and better-considered measure. 1861    Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 24/2  				They have become better armed and more exasperated by the whites. 1910    B. E. Stevenson Amer. Men of Mind 		(1913)	 ix. 312  				It is doubtful if there is a better-loved woman in America today than Helen Gould. 1956    Life 2 Apr. 30/2  				Is this news helpful to men on earth; does it make them better-behaved? 1975    L. Perl Slumps, Grunts, & Snickerdoodles xii. 97  				The traditional way to do this was to toss the biscuit dough onto a smooth-topped tree stump or, in better-equipped kitchens, onto a heavy wooden ‘biscuit block’. 1988    P. Cloud Oasis in Space xvi. 438/2  				This led to ever-fleeter grazers..and ever-swifter, stealthier, or better-organized predators. 2006    Attitude Nov. 104/2  				The display at the National features some of his better-known paintings. 2007    N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Mar. 20/2  				Singapore introduced a series of measures to encourage its better-educated citizens to start families. < as lemmas | 
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