单词 | there-there |
释义 | > as lemmasthere-there 7. Used interjectionally, usually to point (in a tone of vexation, dismay, derision, satisfaction, encouragement, etc.) to some fact, condition, or consummation, presented to the sight or mind. Hence there-there vb. trans., to soothe or comfort by saying these words. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)] > by specific utterance there-there1968 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxiv. [xxxv.] 21 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, sayenge: there, there [1611 Aha, aha!]: we se it with oure eyes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. i. 78 Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 43 Aiax. Troylus, thou coward Troylus. Dio. I there, there? View more context for this quotation 1788 J. O'Keeffe Prisoner at Large i. vi There, sir, the bed's ready. 1798 J. Austen Let. 24 Dec. (1995) 28 There!—I may now finish my letter, & go & hang myself. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. iv. 96 ‘There now,’ said Touchwood, ‘there was a rencontre between them—the very thing I wanted to know.’ 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xx. 284 It's no such thing, says mother, quite snappishly; Sam is only twenty-one last Thanksgiving-day, and he was born just nine months and one day arter we was married, so there now. 1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 295 There! I have put my foot in it! 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 514/1 ‘There, there’, my poor father answered, ‘it is not that’. 1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 101 There now, if I haven't entirely forgotten to say anything about the boys. 1876 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. iii. 115 There, that's your prophecy did that! 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 49 There, the dread descent is over. 1888 ‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Children ix. 60 And, indeed—but there, what's the good of talking about it. 1893 W. S. Burrell & E. E. Cuthell Indian Mem. 210 But there! I was not going to tell you how you felt. 1894 ‘J. S. Winter’ Red Coats 55 My life's my own to do what I like with, and I'm going to 'em now; so there! 1903 Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 7/1 She showered blows upon the lad's head and shoulders, with the words,..‘There now, how do you like it?’ 1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island xxi. 280 I suppose you think I'm in love with you. Well, I'm not, so there. 1938 D. Runyon Furthermore viii. 159 He..starts whispering, ‘There, there, there, my itty oddleums.’ 1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair iv. 39 Only one thing your Aunt Lin makes better than me..hot cross buns, and that's only once a year. So there! 1968 J. Sangster Touchfeather xv. 180 I was sobbing my heart out on his chest and he was there there-ing me all over the place. 1969 Listener 15 May 698/1 But Gwen was going to marry her lecherous tutor, so there. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 240 There, There, sir. 1977 C. Dexter Silent World N. Quinn 254 Joyce took the baby..and lovingly there-thered his raucous cries. < as lemmas |
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