| 单词 | the great part |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe great part (of) c. With the. That constitutes more than half, larger, as the great body (of), the great part (of), etc. Cf. greater adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a great part or proportion > the greater part, the majority the more partOE the best part ofOE (the) more parta1350 (the) most parta1350 (the) most part alla1350 (the) most party1372 for (also be, in) the most part (also deal, party)a1387 the better part ofa1393 the mo?a1400 most forcea1400 substancea1413 corsec1420 generalty?c1430 the greater partc1430 three quartersc1470 generalityc1485 the most feck1488 corpse1533 most1553 nine-tenths?1556 better half1566 generality?1570 pluralityc1570 body1574 the great body (of)1588 flush1592 three fourths1600 best1601 heap1609 gross1625 lump1709 bulk1711 majority1714 nineteen in twenty1730 balance1747 sweighta1800 heft1816 chief1841 the force1842 thick end1847 a1450 Complaint J. Brome in Warwickshire Antiquarian Mag. (1869) 4 181 (MED) The same persons..toke and bare away dyuers godes..yn rifelyng the said hous the grete part of all that nyght. c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 9 King Arthur..conquerid the gret part of the regions be west of Rome. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. iv. vii. f. ccviv Such holy doctours and sayntes, as are well acquaynted wyth Chrystes phrases and parables, and in the studye therof, haue spent the great parte of all theyr lyues. ?1567 Def. Priestes Mariages (new ed.) 79 Thei haue so bewitched the people, yea, the greate part of the wise of the worlde. 1588 E. Aggas tr. F. de La Noue Politicke & Mil. Disc. 380 The great bodie of that battell wherein they were, being at the first onset ouerthrowne..yet stood they fast in the place where they had bene aranged. 1668 D. Lloyd Memoires 365 The great part of the Peers..withdrew to weaken those designs. 1700 S. Clark & E. Veale Poole's Annot. upon Holy Bible (ed. 4) II. Jeremiah xxxi Which promise the Apostle..proveth to have been by God made good, notwithstanding the rejection of the great Body of that People. 1761 J. Freinsheim tr. Livy Rom. Hist. I. i. ix. 23 The great part are hurried away, without any distinction, by those into whose hands they sell. 1798 Monthly Mag. Apr. 258/2 Is it not also evident, that the great proportion of every burthen must rest upon labour? 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 159 To no such plan could the great body of Cavaliers listen with patience. 1872 C. Rhodes Let. in B. Williams Cecil Rhodes (1921) iv. 29 You must not however think that every diamond one finds is a beauty, the great proportion are nothing but splints. 1905 G. K. Chesterton Heretics 106 The great part of the..reproaches directed against the Omarite morality are..false and babyish. 1961 E. F. Jacob Fifteenth Cent., 1399–1485 vi. 275 The great body of cases coming before the official in the fifteenth century was concerned with matrimony, probate and testamentary bequests. 2000 Independent 18 Nov. (Mag.) 19/1 The great proportion of the brassicas are large, coarse crops to be grown in the vegetable garden or on the home farm. < as lemmas |
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