| 单词 | the matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe matter 5. the matter (in various idiomatic uses). extracted from mattern.1 a. The condition of or state of things regarding a person or thing, esp. as a subject of concern or wonder. Chiefly colloquial in what is the matter?, there is something the matter, etc. what is the matter with ——?: what is wrong with——?; (also) what is the objection to, what is there to complain of in ——? In recent colloquial use (e.g. quot. 1925) sometimes interpreted as a predicative adjective in the sense ‘wrong, amiss’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > making inquiries [phrase] how so?a1375 what, how seemeth you?1485 what reck?a1513 what is the matter?c1520 what about ——1662 what's the row?1810 how come?1848 whassa1906 since when?1907 what'sa matter1935 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > affecting a person or thing the matterc1520 c1520 tr. Terence Andria iii. iv, in Terens in Eng. sig. C.iv S. What is the matter now. Da. Why nye the bryde send for. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxii. 8 Whan he hath tolde his tayle, he sayeth: what is the matter? 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxiiiv No man knew what the matter was. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. K2v Alexander happed to say: Doe you thinke these men would haue come from so farre to complaine, except they had iust cause of griefe? and Cassander answered, Yea, that was the matter, because they thought they should not be disprooued. View more context for this quotation c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 23 Maister Roclif asked him what the matter was, if he might have any ease. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 156 What is the matter here? View more context for this quotation 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. 6 The Canto tells you, what's the matter. 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. i. 12 I thought something was the matter, I wanted of Quality-Air. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iv. 103 I beseech you what is the Matter with you! 1726 J. Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 30 Why she loves him, admire not at her, She loves herself, and that's the Matter. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 58 Dear madam, said I, there is something the matter with Mr. Faulkland. 1802 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) 6 8 What's the matter with the peace? 1833 H. Martineau Three Ages ii. 75 The children..amused themselves as if nothing was the matter. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xix. 190 ‘What's the matter with the dogs' legs?’ whispered Mr. Winkle. 1849 A. Helps Friends in Council II. i. iv. 91 There was something the matter with the old man. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 69 ‘What's the matter?’ ‘Nothing is the matter, Matilda’, he said. 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 76 One of the party—Somervell—had more the matter with him than the early morning lassitude. 1960 Woman's Illustr. 16 July 45 I heard the noise of weeping, sister. Is anything the matter? 1965 B. Took & M. Feldman Round the Horne (1975) 37 What's the matter with green and yellow dishcloths? ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adverb] to (the) purposea1387 pertinentlyc1425 to the matter1534 relevantly1536 pat1578 effectually1581 germanely1823 the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > of a statement, enactment, etc. the matter1534 spirit1742 the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [phrase] > irrelevant of purpose (also (out) of (a) (set) purpose)a1382 wide of (also from) the mark1536 neither off nor on1549 from the purpose1561 from (also out of) the bias1600 from the matter1658 (off) at, in, upon a tangent1825 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1303/2 He went roundly to the matter, and sayd vnto them: what wyl ye gyue me and I shal delyuer hym to you. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxx Thou aunswerest Luther, more vnreuerently, then it becommeth thee, and not sufficientlye to the matter. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 3 To vse too many circumstances ere one come to the matter is wearisome. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §326 To helpe the Matter, the Alchymists call in..many Vanities, out of Astrologie. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 951 It shall not be from the matter to tax in brief the madnesse of the ancient Gentiles. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 55 If you take 5 parts Lead, and one part Stone, it will come very near the matter. a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1714) I. 12 He grants it [sc. the deluge] to have come so near the matter, that but very few escap'd. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 499 You're much about the matter [L. haud multum aberras a scopo]. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) 31 Telling me, that..I might save enough by the time I was One and Twenty to set me up, & that if I came near the Matter he would help me out with the Rest. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > in general [phrase] > in general terms or not in detail > as a whole one or other?1544 upon the whole matter1612 on the whole1624 in the (whole) complex1661 in the large1943 ?1577 Misogonus iii. i, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 229 Pounder matter well if she should not knowt, who showlde knowe?] 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 149 So that vpon the whole matter, [1625 vpon the matter], in a great wit, deformity is an aduantage to rising. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxxvii. 93 That Christians are not bound to keep faith with idolaters, the worshippers of a false god, as the Egyptian Caliph was on the matter. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 120 The Rules they both work by are upon the matter the same, in Sawing, Mortessing,..&c. 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 79 This is upon the matter a Pension paid under a more decent name to the most considerable Men of the Country. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 577 Upon the whole matter it is Infinitely absurd to think that Conscience can be kept in order without frequent Examination. a1710 G. Bull Serm. in Wks. (1713) II. 733 He is upon the matter sure of a long life. to the matter ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adverb] to (the) purposea1387 pertinentlyc1425 to the matter1534 relevantly1536 pat1578 effectually1581 germanely1823 the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > of a statement, enactment, etc. the matter1534 spirit1742 the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [phrase] > irrelevant of purpose (also (out) of (a) (set) purpose)a1382 wide of (also from) the mark1536 neither off nor on1549 from the purpose1561 from (also out of) the bias1600 from the matter1658 (off) at, in, upon a tangent1825 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1303/2 He went roundly to the matter, and sayd vnto them: what wyl ye gyue me and I shal delyuer hym to you. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxx Thou aunswerest Luther, more vnreuerently, then it becommeth thee, and not sufficientlye to the matter. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 3 To vse too many circumstances ere one come to the matter is wearisome. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §326 To helpe the Matter, the Alchymists call in..many Vanities, out of Astrologie. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 951 It shall not be from the matter to tax in brief the madnesse of the ancient Gentiles. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 55 If you take 5 parts Lead, and one part Stone, it will come very near the matter. a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1714) I. 12 He grants it [sc. the deluge] to have come so near the matter, that but very few escap'd. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 499 You're much about the matter [L. haud multum aberras a scopo]. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) 31 Telling me, that..I might save enough by the time I was One and Twenty to set me up, & that if I came near the Matter he would help me out with the Rest. < as lemmas |
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