英语词汇“so to speak”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. In the infinitive, esp. so to speak.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > phrases indicating mode of expression [phrase]

by language?c1450

so to speak1553

as they (etc.) speak1595

in a manner of speaking1890

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1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 205 All goodnesse (to speake at a worde) goeth awaie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 515 Or if you will, to speake more properly, I will enforce it easlie.

1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 232 Before Herod (to speake in few) they put vpon him a Fooles Note.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 494 There was no year, wherein he did not gain a thousand duckats, to speak with the least.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vii. 183 It would cost me nothing..to say yes—but to speak on the square, I must needs say no.

1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xl. 349 To speak by the book, ‘Mr. Gunter, cook, confectioner, and fruiterer’.

(b)1824 Longfellow Let. 2 Mar. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. iii. 37 If this were not another building, I should have imagined I occupied the same chamber that you did in former times, for it seemed to be the very highest point of the dwelling, the very apogee, so to speak.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 112 Notables are, so to speak, organned out.1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children v. 34 Pearl..was the leading spirit of the pair, and led Maud by the nose, so to speak.attributive and as noun.1874 Gentleman's Mag. July 126 In a so to speak unconscious manner.1874 R. Heath in Golden Hours Jan. 34/2 This statement of his..is not to be dismissed as a mere so-to-speak.

单词	so to speak
释义	> as lemmas so to speak a. In the infinitive, esp. so to speak. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > phrases indicating mode of expression [phrase] by language?c1450 so to speak1553 as they (etc.) speak1595 in a manner of speaking1890 (a) 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 205 All goodnesse (to speake at a worde) goeth awaie. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 515 Or if you will, to speake more properly, I will enforce it easlie. View more context for this quotation 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 232 Before Herod (to speake in few) they put vpon him a Fooles Note. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 494 There was no year, wherein he did not gain a thousand duckats, to speak with the least. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vii. 183 It would cost me nothing..to say yes—but to speak on the square, I must needs say no. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xl. 349 To speak by the book, ‘Mr. Gunter, cook, confectioner, and fruiterer’. (b)1824 Longfellow Let. 2 Mar. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. iii. 37 If this were not another building, I should have imagined I occupied the same chamber that you did in former times, for it seemed to be the very highest point of the dwelling, the very apogee, so to speak.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 112 Notables are, so to speak, organned out.1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children v. 34 Pearl..was the leading spirit of the pair, and led Maud by the nose, so to speak.attributive and as noun.1874 Gentleman's Mag. July 126 In a so to speak unconscious manner.1874 R. Heath in Golden Hours Jan. 34/2 This statement of his..is not to be dismissed as a mere so-to-speak. extracted from speakv. < as lemmas
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