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单词 simple as i stand here
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simple as (also though) I stand here
P2. simple as (also though) I stand here and variants: used as an expression of humility or (mock-)modesty to emphasize the truth of a statement, esp. one which seems hard to believe. Cf. as (sure (also surely, certainly, etc.) as) I stand here (also before you) at stand v. Phrases 3b. Obsolete.
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1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 3 There is a neighbour of ours, an honest priest, who was sometimes (symple as he nowe standes) a vice in a playe.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. i. sig. B2 I am his next heire, as simple as I stand here, if my cosen die. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. i. 202 Slender. He's a Iustice of Peace in his Countrie, simple though I stand here . View more context for this quotation
1673 J. Dare Counsellor Manners 41 For ought she or any knew her Son (simple as he stood there) might live to be King of Spain.
1728 J. Swift Mad Mullinix & Timothy in Intelligencer (1729) viii. 74 And simple as I now stand here, Expect in Time to be a P——.
1765 R. Cumberland Summer's Tale ii. iii. 40 I ha' work'd in this Field, simple as I stand here, any Time these Thirty Years.
1852 C. Dickens in Househ. Words 4 Sept. 582/2 This particular glass of wine..was destined from all eternity to be drank by me, simple as I stand here, Scolaio Franchi.
1906 Academy 6 Jan. 14/1 Simple as I stand, a part in the fray was mine.
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