单词 | so that |
释义 | > as lemmasso that (also so alone) 23. so that (also so alone) , denoting result or logical consequence; also sometimes = ‘in order that’. In the revived use of so alone, originally U.S. ΚΠ (a) (b)c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i He gehet Romanum his freondscipe, swa þæt hi mostan heora ealdrihta wyrðe beon.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xv. 31 [He] gelecnade hea.., sua þæt ðreatas wundradun.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) Ded. l. 293 Swa þatt he mann kinn wel inoh. Off helle mihhte lesenn.c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 216 Þe king..dede him sore swinge,..So þat þe blod ran of his fleys.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 53 Þe ilke..wylleþ hyealde hire fole uelaȝredes, zuo þet hi ne conne ne hi ne moȝe healde mesure.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 65 Such weddur þat stroyed all þe vynys..so at þer wyne had nowder colour nor savor.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxviiiv [They] had conueighed their shippes in to the hauens, so that he could not fight with them on the sea.1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vi. 280 Of..flesh heere is great scarcitie, so that they are constrained to eate camels flesh onely.1670 in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 21 The under pettycoatt very richly laced.., so that 50 or 60 pounds [is] but an ordinary price.c1760 R. Challoner in E. H. Burton Life Bp. Challoner (1909) II. xxiv. 28 We will spend our evenings..at our own lodgings, so that we may be found.1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii. 30 So that Mary Avenel..was regarded with a mysterious awe.1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xiv. 126 The turf roof of it had fallen entirely in; so that the hut was of no use to me.OE Beowulf 1508 Bær þa seo brimwylf..hringa þengel to hofe sinum, swa he ne mihte..wæpna gewealdan. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 64 Thanne seide I to my-self, so Pacience it herde. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxi. 564 Take your leg off from the crown of the anchor here, though, so I can pass the rope. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl xii. 143 One of the books in front of mine was six shillings. I bought it so mine would show. 1913 [see sense 7a]. 1949 W. Rogers Autobiogr. 44 The reason they leave some of our boys over there..is so they can get mail that was sent to them during the war. 1951 C. P. Snow Masters i. 3 Shovelling coal up the back of the chimney, throwing it on so it would burn for hours. 1968 Los Angeles Times 3 Mar. e6/3 The main reason Gender is back in the classroom is so he can converse in the many languages he knows. 1977 A. Thwaite Portion for Foxes 28 I shall make it simple so you understand. so (that) a. so (that), in limiting sense: On condition that, provided that, so long as, if only. Cf. 30. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > on condition that soc1000 with the nonesc1410 conditionally1571 (a) (b)c1000 Ælfric Numbers xxii. 20 Far mid him, swa þæt [L. ita duntaxat ut] þu do, þæt ic þe bebeode.c1320 Cast. Love 1042 Al þis wyde world I chul ȝeuen þe, So þat þou bouwe and honoure me.1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 89 I forȝiue him þat gult.., So þat ȝe assented beo.c1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. (1896) 8 Oft þe prince hym profred to delyuer hym out of prison, so þat he wold be his helppe to werry vpon þe kynge.1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xlviii. 188 Yf nedes I shal dey, I were..wel content soo that it were in the absence of her.c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lviii. 202 I offer to make you amendes..so that ye wyl ayde me.1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. M2 You condemne not funerall sermons then, so that they be good.1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox ix. 211 Writing I am well contented to permit; So that I see your Letter.1755 Monitor No. 8 Let us not regard by what name it shall be called, so that it be carried on vigorously.1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 188 Mackenzie..was..indifferent who was found guilty, so that he could recover his money.1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 17 So that you do not serve me sparrow-hawks For supper, I will enter.c1000 Apollonius of Tyre (Thorpe) 20 Nim nu lareow appolloni, swa hit þe ne mislicyge. c1386 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame i. 423 He had y-swore to hire..That so she saved hym hys lyfe, He wolde haue take hir to hys wife. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 5991 To-morne þe fleys sal be þe fra. so þou be-gyle vs na mare. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xx. 245 All my couandys holden shall be, So I haue felyship me abowte. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxii Butter and swynes grece..are good, so they be nat salte. 1613 T. Jackson Eternall Truth Script. ii. 453 The proofe were good, so it could be proued. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 30 Ulysses..cared not how meanly he lived, so he might finde a noble Tomb after death. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 208. ⁋4 It is no Matter how dirty a Bag it is conveyed to him in,..so the Money is good. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 81. ⁋2 Which duty ought to be most esteemed, we may continue to debate..; so all be diligently performed. 1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Purgatorio ix. 22 So but the suppliant at my feet implore. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xiii. 14 I'll swiftly go..Nor care what land thou bear'st me to, So not again to mine. < as lemmas |
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