单词 | to have no bottom |
释义 | > as lemmasto have no bottom P4. to have no bottom and variants: (of a quality, resource, process, etc.) to be inexhaustible or endless. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > abound [verb (intransitive)] > be inexhaustible to have no bottom1567 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. vi. 736 Ambition, and Auarice haue no bottome. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 63 Forgetting..the vicissitude of good and evil, they apprehend no bottom in felicity. 1760 P. Baker Sundays kept Holy 66 As thy Riches have no Bottom, thy Liberality has no End. 1877 Nation 8 Feb. 83/2 There is no end to ‘public improvements’, and, in the eyes of jobbers and promoters, no bottom to the Treasury. 1938 Times of India 1 Nov. 6/5 Hindi-Urdu controversy has no bottom. 2015 D. Gottlieb Educ. Reform & Concept Good Teaching vii. 188 There simply is no bottom to the charter school debate. < as lemmas |
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