| 单词 | the last man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto the last man i. to the last man: without exception (= to a man at sense 17j); until every person is dead, or until only one person remains alive. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. vii. 495 They bound themselves by a sacred law and oth to fight it out to the last man. 1677 W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) i. 161 [He] said they would fight it out to the last Man. 1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 102/1 One entire tribe of the Khan's dependents..had perished to the last man. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee v. 68 The peoples of the earth shall famish and die, to the last man! 1936 Times 30 Nov. 5/4 A pack who shoved to the last man and quick-heeled from the tight and loose. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness ii. ix. 205 300 local allies were massacred to the last man by the Latookas after an unsuccessful attempt at ambush. to the last man a. Indicating a limit or point attained in degree or amount, or in division or analysis, and thus expressing degree of completeness or exactitude: As far as; to the point of; down to (an ultimate element or item), as in to a hair (hair n. Phrases 3), to the last man; to a man (including every man, without exception); within (a limit of variation or error), as to an inch, to a day. (See also quots. s.v. down adv. 18a.) ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xx. 42 Heo wel drohtnode to anum mæle fæstende. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 173 Þei..do me faste frydayes to bred and to water. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21527 Of he kest al to his serk. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum To the vttermost peny, ad assem. 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iii. sig. E3v Ile quote him to a tittle. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 141 Pand: Youle remember your brothers excuse? Par: To a hayre. View more context for this quotation 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 224 They might haue had the killing of all his army to a man. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 59 That he would root them out to the verie name. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xi. 103 Sir Tomkyn..swore he was her's to the last drop of his blood. 1779 Mirror No. 34. ⁋5 He was generally punctual to a minute. 1867 J. A. Froude Erasmus & Luther in Short Stud. ii. 99 The bishops were hostile to a man. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 349 Balances are made sensitive to the fraction of a grain. < as lemmas |
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