| 单词 | such and such |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuch and such b. such and such. (rarely predicative.)Hence such-and-suchness, the quality or condition of being so-and-so. ΚΠ 1551 Bible (Matthew's) 2 Kings vi. 8 In suche a place and in suche a place [1560 Geneva In suche and suche a place] wyl I pitch. 1560 Bible (Geneva) 2 Sam. xii. 8 I..wolde moreouer..haue giuen thee suche and suche things. 1565 J. Hall Hist. Expost. in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. sig. Aaaijv Suche men and suche enformed me that he can tell of thynges loste. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iii. 29 How I would thinke on him at certaine houres, Such thoughts, and such. View more context for this quotation 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. v. 82 Vpon the feeding on such and such food it was no vncouth thing for him to voyd such an vrine. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §31, in Wks. (1871) I. 171 Such and such ideas are attended with such and such other ideas. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 114 I shall..proceed upon the supposition that the contents are such and such. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1855) II. vii. 68 Lord and Lady Blank, of Suchandsuch Castle. 1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata I. i. 2 Number so-and-so in such-and-such a street. 1885 A. Seth Sc. Philos. ii. 57 Every event has a character; is such-and-such an event. 1885 A. Seth Sc. Philos. ii. 57 It is at its such-and-suchness, at its character—in other words, at the universal in it—that we have to look. 1899 E. Callow Old London Taverns i. 247 It became the custom to ask what coffee~house such-and-such a man frequented. such and such 23. such and such: such and such persons or things; also singular, this and this. ΚΠ a1450 Knt. de la Tour xv He saide..that suche and suche had saine her do hit. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 502 Not contented to take the wheat, the bacon, ye butter, the oile, the cheese, to giue vnto such & such out of ye doore. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 34 Giuyng warnyng to them of the house, that such & such be newly come. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 57 I saw him yesterday, or th'other day, Or then, or then, with such and such . View more context for this quotation 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 147 We have done such, and such, and such. < as lemmas |
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