单词 | this much |
释义 | > as lemmasthis much b. Qualifying an adjective or adverb, originally chiefly of quantity, esp. this much (where this is perhaps felt as the pronoun = ‘as much as this’; cf. that adv. 2); now also qualifying other adjectives and adverbs (grading into an intensive). ΚΠ c1460 Wisdom 982 in Macro Plays 67 I be-gyn awake, I that þis longe hath slumberyde in syne. 1586 Sir F. Walsingham in Leycester's Corr. (Camden) 230 This myche have I receyved from her majestye. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 62 And this far of the Iles called Hebrides. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. viii. 190 Having said this much preparatorily. 1763 C. Johnstone Reverie (new ed.) I. 23 He might have spared himself the trouble even of this much. 1877 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VII. lxxxii. 324 Perhaps this much of Plato is enough for one letter. 1884 J. P. Norris in Shakespearian May 181 None of the portraits mentioned by Walpole are dated this early. 1885 J. J. Murphy in Brit. Q. Rev. July 100 The Agnostic argument..must go this far if it is to be valid. 1932 J. Leatham Fisherfolk 13 A'm this aul', an' I never had a sy-ystem! 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. (Mag.) 34/2 I have a stack of telegrams this thick. 1971 Where Dec. 376/3 Yet the picture is usually not even this good. Most teachers..talk much more than half the time in their classes, and the time that is left is not all used for children talking. 1972 Real Estate Rev. Winter 8/2 Keep in mind, however, that no existing property is this typical. 1976 Woman's Day (N.Y.) Nov. 154/2 I haven't felt this well in years. < as lemmas |
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