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单词 thisthe next
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this..the next..
6. In contrast to that: properly denoting the nearer of two things, but often vaguely indicating one thing as distinct from another, esp. in this and (or) that.. = one and (or) another.. So also †this..this.. (quots. a1500, a1631); this..the other.. (quot. 1717); this..the next.. (quot. 1768). Cf. 3 above.
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a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 19 Thou wold I gaf hym this shefe? or this sheyfe?
1552 T. Wilson Rule of Reason (rev. ed.) sig. Kijv Showyng it to be true in this substaunce, and that substaunce.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xlv The cause of this or that precept.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. c j b Those turne this way and that way in the hande.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost (1623) v. ii. 914 You that way; we this way.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 179 How Rheubarb, or how Aloes came by this, or this vertue, to purge this, or this humour.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 204 This Way, and that, th' impatient Captives tend.
1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 494 This man pursues What if he gain'd he could not use: And t'other fondly hopes to see What never was, nor e'er shall be.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. xvi. 58 Truth..must not be measured by the Convenience of this or that Man.
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man i. 1 He laughs this minute with one, and cries the next with another.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 6 Both his eyes were dazzled, as he stood, This way and that dividing the swift mind, In act to throw. [Cf. Virgil Æn. iv. 285.]
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 128 The temporary..superiority of this or that Bretwalda.
1930 R. Graves Ten Poems More 11 Neat this-way-that-way and without mistake.
1937 C. Day Lewis Starting Point i. iii. 51 The field was scored..with streaking,..incessant this-way that-way movement.
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