| 单词 | so much the better for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasso much the better for —— b. so much the better for ——: used to suggest that an event, situation, strategy, etc., will be beneficial or profitable to the person or thing specified, often at the expense of others. Cf. so much the worse for —— at worse adj. and n. Phrases 1b(b).Sometimes used ironically or with a pejorative implication of heedless self-interest. ΚΠ ?1592 H. Barwick Breefe Disc. Weapons f. 17 If it be a Musket, so much the better for my purpose. 1672 E. Ravenscroft Citizen turn'd Gentleman i. i. 11 He is a fool too..? So much the better for her... She'l..rule the rost as long as she lives. 1749 Ladies Advocate 116 Suppose it was cold frosty Weather; so much the better for her Health; the Air would do her good. 1888 H. R. Haggard Mr. Meeson's Will vi. 87 Business is business; and if I happen to have got to windward of the young woman, why, so much the better for me. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky ix. xvi. 290 Why, of course they have got another partner. Of course they have... So much the better for you. Let them go to the eighty black years. 1989 M. Mathabane Kaffir Boy in Amer. (1990) xxxvii. 225 The Marxist strategy of ‘emmiseration’—let the people become hungrier and poorer, so much the better for the revolution. 2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 Jan. (Review section) 42 The undisputed queen of British baking returns to our screens trailing reports of a failed attempt to crack America... So much the better for us if it enables her to make more homegrown cookery shows. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。