| 单词 | small and great |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall and great 4. With plural agreement. Persons of low or inferior rank or position, or of little ability or attainment. Chiefly in great and small (see great n. 2b); also small and great. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [noun] lowerc1175 afterlingc1275 smalla1325 nethererc1443 undermana1661 lowlife1712 vulgar1763 vulgarian1809 rank outsider1869 low man on the totem1956 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > collectively smalla1325 simplea1375 riff-raffc1475 lowly1547 little folk1580 little people1699 lowlife1820 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2892 Hem-seluen he..holden ðe tigeles tale, And elten and eilden grete & smale. a1400 Psalter (Egerton) cxviii. 130 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 256 (MED) To smale [L. parvulos; Vesp. Schirenes of þi speche lightes wit, Vnderstanding to litel giues ite]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxiii. 12 Yee he blesseth all them that feare the Lorde, both small & greate. 1597 J. Tanner Serm. Paules Crosse (new ed.) 29 The cause of the smalle, as well as the greate. 1679 S. Woodford Paraphr. upon Canticles 63 Both small and great there undistinguisht be, Undisturb'd by outworn Authority. 1737 tr. C. de Bruyn Trav. into Muscovy I. 31/2 They then begin to give Easter eggs, which continues for a fortnight, a custom as well among the great as the small. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 375 Envy, ye great, the dull, unletter'd small. 1860 W. Fraser Parish Serm. 7 Now, at this moment, all, the living and the dead, the just and the unjust, the small and the great, wherever they may be, are standing before Him. 1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled (1989) ii. iii. 76 The oppression of the poor by the rich is associated with the stultification of the great by the small. 1999 G. DeMar Last Days Madness (ed. 4) i. 20 The small and the great, the sane and the insane, the sacred and the profane have been quick to predict when the end might come. < as lemmas |
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