英语词汇“to be no better than one should be”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to be no better than one should be and variants: to be of doubtful moral character, esp. (of a woman) to be sexually promiscuous. Now archaic or literary.

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1604 Pasquils Iestes sig. C A Man, whose wife was no better then she should be.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 189 Others..backe themselves with this, That your best Preachers are no better then they should be.

1764 F. Sheridan Journ. to Bath i. i, in Sheridan's Plays (1902) 263 That same Lord Stewkly is no better than he should be, (between ourselves).

1780 Mirror No. 104 Every woman who passed much of her time in town, he made no scruple to say, was no better than she should be.

1815 C. Lamb Let. 28 Apr. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 147 To term her a poor outcast seems as much as to say that poor Susan was no better than she should be.

1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds I. xxiii. 305 He..almost believed that she was not now, and hadn't been before her marriage, any better than she should be.

1882 J. C. Morison Macaulay 105 They are all no better than they should be.

1904 A. Bennett Great Man xiii. 139 Her..suspicion that the self-styled Miss Foster was no better than she ought to be.

1937 A. L. Rowse Sir Richard Grenville xix. 346 The one was a brute, and the other a vixen, and no better than she should be into the bargain.

1998 I. de la Bere Last Deception Palliser Wentwood iii. 68 Comes in here for a port on market days, ever so refeened, but no better than she should be by all accounts.

单词	to be no better than one should be
释义	> as lemmas to be no better than one should be b. to be no better than one should be and variants: to be of doubtful moral character, esp. (of a woman) to be sexually promiscuous. Now archaic or literary. ΚΠ 1604 Pasquils Iestes sig. C A Man, whose wife was no better then she should be. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 189 Others..backe themselves with this, That your best Preachers are no better then they should be. 1764 F. Sheridan Journ. to Bath i. i, in Sheridan's Plays (1902) 263 That same Lord Stewkly is no better than he should be, (between ourselves). 1780 Mirror No. 104 Every woman who passed much of her time in town, he made no scruple to say, was no better than she should be. 1815 C. Lamb Let. 28 Apr. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 147 To term her a poor outcast seems as much as to say that poor Susan was no better than she should be. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds I. xxiii. 305 He..almost believed that she was not now, and hadn't been before her marriage, any better than she should be. 1882 J. C. Morison Macaulay 105 They are all no better than they should be. 1904 A. Bennett Great Man xiii. 139 Her..suspicion that the self-styled Miss Foster was no better than she ought to be. 1937 A. L. Rowse Sir Richard Grenville xix. 346 The one was a brute, and the other a vixen, and no better than she should be into the bargain. 1998 I. de la Bere Last Deception Palliser Wentwood iii. 68 Comes in here for a port on market days, ever so refeened, but no better than she should be by all accounts. extracted from betteradj.n.¹adv. < as lemmas
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