单词 | such a…such another |
释义 | > as lemmassuch a…such another a. such another, another such: another…of the kind, another similar. (Rarely another such a, †such a…such another: one…another, with a singular noun)Such another is used idiomatically in Shakespeare, where we should now say simply either ‘such (a)’, as in Two Gent. iii. i. 133, Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 282 (Fo. 1), or ‘another’, ‘a second’, as in Merry W. i. iv. 145. ΚΠ a1300 Sat. People Kildare iv, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 153 Soch an oþir an erþe i note. c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) 716 In-to þat schip þer longed a Rooþur,..In al þis world nis such a noþur. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1942 (MED) For nankyn chaunce sal I take suche a-noþer veniaunce. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1942 For nakin schaunce [Fairf. nankyn chaunce] Sal i ta suilk a noiþer wengance. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxvi. l. 638 Whiche tombe was so Ryaly dyht, that neuere myht Comprehende In Mannes Miht Swich Anothir tombe to Make As there was don. a1500 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 118 Proinces is a stone of femal kend..for somtyme he conceyueþ & bereþ such anoþer stone. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. v. sig. F.j Did not you make me a letter brother? Scriuener. Pay the like hire. I will make you suche an other. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iv. 5 I would not spend another such a night. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 252 Such other gambole faculties a has..for the which the prince admits him: for the prince himself is such another . View more context for this quotation 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 352 Heere are besides the ancient Statues of the Horatij and Curiatij, and such another of Neroes Mother as I haue mentioned to be in the Capitoll. a1627 T. Middleton More Dissemblers besides Women v. i, in 2 New Playes (1657) 72 How; such another word, down goes your Hose Boy. 1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse 17 Another Such had left the Nation, Thin, In spight of all the Children He brought in. 1720 Humourist 65 Such a Person can do nothing ill, and such another..nothing well. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 163 She was such another genius as Chubb. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxix. 150 We'll never get another such a master. 1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xxxii. 279 That chance has passed from her; and she will not easily find such another. 1868 A. C. Swinburne W. Blake 180 The ‘frowning babe’ of the last stanzas is..the same or such another as the one whose birth is first spoken of. 1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. v No foolish being..will ever be capable of saying such another foolish thing. 1941 E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner vii. 124 As the drunkard that swallowed the true live frog in his beer-mug, supposing it but such another fantasm as he was customed to? 2011 S. Mukherji Thinking on Thresholds iv. 64 A ‘deeper’ meaning that emerges..when we have a Ruskin, or such another decipherer, at hand. < as lemmas |
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