| 单词 | the million |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe million a. In singular. Usually a (emphatically one) million; in phrases expressing rate, the million.thanks a million: see thank n. Phrases 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > million a milliona1393 millionc1400 muskmelon1662 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2613 (MED) Sche..that richest is And hath of gold a Milion. c1395 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 1685 ‘Yis,’ quod this aungel, ‘many a milioun.’ c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 236 (MED) With a melyone [v.r. myllione] of messes. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxx. 243 Ye shal vnderstonde that a myllyon is /M/M/. 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 391 What is he among a myllian that is not surprised with sorrowe, when [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 92 Oh, 'giue ye-good-ev'n: heer's a million of manners. 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime i. 5 Through a Million of dangers we arriued the Spanish coasts. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 334 'Tis a million to one but they wish it had never been done. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. v. 26 A million of Yahoos might have been killed. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xi. 123 He had a million of things to say to me. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 6 We charged him with a million of thanks. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 524 The sun is a million of times larger than the earth. 1885 Manch. Examiner 24 July 5/1 He could count his soldiers by the million. 1926 V. Lindsay Geol. in Going-to-stars 84 A million of years. 1934 J. B. Priestley Eng. Journey ix. 316 This [ship-]yard..had been a spectacular failure in which over a million of money had been lost. 1989 San Diego Oct. 176/2 Leningrad lost one million of its population from starvation alone. the million b. the millions (also the million): the bulk of the population; the multitude, the masses. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] folkc888 peoplea1325 frapec1330 commona1350 common peoplea1382 commonsa1382 commontya1387 communityc1400 meiniec1400 commonaltya1425 commonsa1500 vulgarsa1513 many1526 meinie1532 multitude1535 the many-headed beast (also monster)1537 number1542 ignobility1546 commonitya1550 popular1554 populace1572 popularya1578 vulgarity?1577 populacya1583 rout1589 the vulgar1590 plebs1591 mobile vulgusc1599 popularity1599 ignoble1603 the million1604 plebe1612 plebeity1614 the common filea1616 the herda1616 civils1644 commonality1649 democracy1656 menu1658 mobile1676 crowd1683 vulgusa1687 mob1691 Pimlico parliament?1774 citizenry1795 polloi1803 demos1831 many-headed1836 hoi polloi1837 the masses1837 citizenhood1843 John Q.1922 wimble-wamble1937 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > greater number, majority moeOE unfewc1175 most?a1400 most forcea1400 substancea1413 overmatch1542 flush1592 the (great, vast) mass of1604 the millions1604 stream1614 numbers1638 the multiplicity of1639 majority1650 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 439 The play I remember pleasd not the million . View more context for this quotation 1764 S. Foote Lyar i. i. 9 If you would descend a little to the grovelling comprehension of the million, I think it would be as well. 1822 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Apr. 69 The immense sums, thus pinched from the millions, and put into the hands of thousands. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. App. E. 283 The democratic spirit is triumphing. The millions awake. The masses appear. 1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 194 There was no literature for the million. The universal reading, the cheap press, were unknown. 1894 K. Grahame Pagan Papers 29 The two-and-sixpenny edition for the million. 1944 L. MacNeice Christopher Columbus 14 To assert..that all art should have mass-appeal is like asserting that all mathematics should be ‘for the million’. 1989 P. Stead Film & Working Class 10 The movies were ‘for the millions’ but they were given to the millions by showmen. < as lemmas |
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