| 单词 | thus and thus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthus and thus e. thus and thus, expressing minuteness or detail in the description given. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > specifically [phrase] > in detail > expressing minuteness of detail thus and thusa1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 26203 Þus & þus do þi penaunce [Vesp. For þus, and þus, þou do penance]. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xxi. 21 Suche day and tyme he dyde thus and thus. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xiv. 5 Speake thou therfore vnto her thus & thus. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 105 The wisedome of nature can reason thus and thus, yet nature finds [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §5 One of the same kind with our selves, thus and thus formed. 1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka xviii. 211 Now we are come to our Kingdom, And the State is thus and thus. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iv. 200 Nobody, no book, ever came and said to me, thus and thus is the world made and so and so is necessary. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iv. 225 Thus and thus it was the Will in things had its way with me. 1942 R. Chandler Let. 15 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 20 The reader expects thus and thus of Chandler because he did it before. < as lemmas |
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