| 单词 | to make up numbers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make up (the) numbers (also number) Phrases P1. a. In phrases denoting that persons, things, etc., have not been, or cannot be, counted. Esp. in without number, (now chiefly South Asian) out of number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > impossible to number [phrase] out of numberc1325 without numberc1325 out of all scotch and notch1589 more than you can shake a stick at1818 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8161 Folc of arabie, So muche þat þer nas non noumbre of hor compainye. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 7297 (MED) Man and hous þai brent and bredden And her godes oway ledden, Wiþouten no [m] bre. c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2579 Ther of folweth another vengeance, peril, and werre, and othere damages with oute nombre. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. 267 Ȝe [sc. friars] wexeth out of noumbre. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 449 (MED) Þis hathill man..sall..out of nounbre to neuyn of nacions wynn. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 5 He lediþ..to helle peple wiþ outun nowmbre. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 366 b/1 The holy poure ladyes whiche [thou] hast drawen to penaunce without nombre. 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. D.4* Marathon, Salamyne, Plate,..& other out of nombre. 1611 Bible (King James) Judges vii. 12 Their camels were without number, as the sand by the Sea side for multitude. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 346 A shout Loud as from numbers without number. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 547 The conquer'd Latians..Piles without number for their Dead prepare. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. i. 63 The instances are here without number. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 36. ⁋5 The sense of this universal pleasure has invited numbers without number to try their skill in pastoral performances. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 92 Persons out of number are amusing themselves with rendering what, I hope, appears to themselves, at least, good service to the country. 1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. vi. iii. 288 The sun was sending up the valley the same long shadow of the housetop that he had seen lying there times out of number. 1892 Law Times 92 147/1 Times without number the courts in bankruptcy have been called upon to decide the question. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 400/1 Accidents and delays without number would occur. 1993 U. Chatterjee Last Burden (1994) iv. 179 To bewail its attrition is the singularity in Shyamanand that his sons, times out of number, have smirked at. b. in number: in total, in sum; altogether. Formerly also †by number, †of number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > in all or altogether by numbera1375 in numbera1375 in allc1380 first and lastc1390 all wholea1393 in companya1393 in sum1399 full and whole1402 in great1421 whole and somec1425 in (the) whole1432 one with another1436 in (the) hale1437 all in great1533 up and down1562 one and other1569 in (the) aggregate1644 all told1814 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > in one assembly (of people or animals) together707 togethersc1175 ymonec1300 i-samec1320 whollyc1330 in numbera1375 sam1390 insamea1400 bedene1522 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2289 (MED) Kene men of armes, twenty hundered & tvo trewli in numbre. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Kings ii. 15 Þanne risen & wentyn twelue bi nowmbre[a1425 L.V. in noumbre; L. numero] of benjamyn. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 5259 Tweyne of noumbre is bet than thre In every counsell and secre. a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 30 (MED) Greuaunce of þe yȝe browis..in noumbre ben 15. c1480 (a1400) St. Barnabas 27 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 250 Dyscipilis..þat in nomir war lxx & twa. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 100 We schold not only have the pepul incresyd in nombur, but also [etc.]. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 45 These toppingly gests, be in number but ten. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 50 In number about thirtie or fortie thousand. c1634 in Sc. Antiquary (1892) 6 60 [Sheep] nyne scoire and fyve in number. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 49 Equal in number to that Godless crew. View more context for this quotation 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. ix. i. 95 Where the Beauties, more in Number, shine. View more context for this quotation 1776 P. Schuyler Let. 12 Oct. in J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family (1977) 89 This enables me to send you all the batteaux I have here, but they are only ten or eleven in number. c1790 W. Cowper Catharina (N.Y., Morgan Libr.) 1 Though the pleasures of London exceed In number the days of the year. 1869 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast (rev. ed.) 435 San Francisco, with its..thousand-ton clipper ships, more in number than London or Liverpool sheltered that day. 1886 Law Times 82 94/1 A mortgage of the stock of sheep, about 6500 in number, on an Australian run. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 21/1 The motifs, four in number, are connected by lines of cording. 1992 Nat. Hist. Feb. 44/1 About fifty in number, these genes, clustered on chromosome 17 in mice..are known as the major histocompatibility locus. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase] > in numerical order in number?a1439 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. 1060 (MED) Than onto Bochas cam the tuelue in noumbre, Callid Pope Iohn. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 3 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 222 Þe apostil sancte mathy, þat In nowmyr þe laste ves, In stad of þe tratour Iudas. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 2 Thre Questionis,..quhilkis ar in noumbre the xxxiii. xxxiiii. and xxxv. of The Four Score Thre Questionis. ΚΠ 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 180 Off this dispyt amendys I think to haiff, Or de thar-for in nowmyr with the laiff. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. 6708 That thai mycht In nowmyre of thai xxx feicht. P2. to (also of, etc.) the number of (a specified number). Formerly also without preposition. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 341 (MED) Bartholanus..come þider wiþ his þre sones..and [they] encresede to þe noumbre of nyne þowsand men. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1102 (MED) Libra sit in the nombre of sevene. ?a1450 ( J. Lydgate Serpent of Division (McClean) (1911) 60 Sche sente þe schorte somme of hir sentence..compendiously in þe Nombre of sixe lettirs. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1196 Many owchys, isette with stonys and perelys in golde, to the numbir of a thousande. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) cii. sig. D*vv Al thys company were to the numbre of .xv. thousande knightes. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. vii. 18 b Where also then were in sight the number of twentie Moores skirmishing with their dartes. 1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 51 Unleveyed..of the nomber of threttie sax. 1643 in Charters, Writs & Pub. Documents Dundee (1880) 89 Every boat comming into the shore..sall exact thereof the number of one hundreth herings. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. 25 There was Mrs. Mary, Mrs. Margaret, Mrs. Lucy, Mrs. Susan, Mrs. Judy, and so forth; to the number of five and twenty, or thereabouts. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 209 Stamford's Regiment was entirely cut in Pieces, and several others, to the Number of about 800 Men. 1775 P. Van Cortlandt Let. 13 Nov. in J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family (1977) 33 Tories from the eastward..to the number of two or three hundred. 1852 J. D. Canning Harp & Plow 155 The candidates mounted the stump for display; While some Oberlin men, To the number of ten, Bethought it a matter for which they should pray. 1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled vii. v. 203 The groups..are to be counted to the number of four. 1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams vi. 231 There were..mock moons or paraselenae to the number of six. P3. to make up (the) numbers (also number). a. To complete a company or quantity, usually of predetermined size. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 262 The Enemy, marching along by them, By them shall make a fuller number vp . View more context for this quotation 1623 Bp. J. Hall Great Impostor 45 Like to some vnfaithfull Captaine that hath..filled his purse with dead paies, made vp the number of his companies with borrowed men. 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety viii. 233 Though it hath too many voluntiers, yet sure 'tis this press that helps to make up its numbers. 1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) ii. 155 A learn'd Clerk, five Tradesmen, and a Swain Call'd Colin, who dwelt in the neighbouring Plain, Made up the Number of Corisca's Train. 1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry i. ix. 159 Two girls and a boy made up the number of this little society. 1850 N. Kingsley Diary 21 Apr. (1914) 119 They drifted once more and made up the number of 51 salmon. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xliii. 59 Now you go and lie down there, and Izz and I will make up your number. 1989 C. Hitchens in I. Hamilton Penguin Bk. 20th-cent. Ess. (1999) 529 He explains that he and his fellows are one short of a quorum for prayer. Will I make up the number? 2001 J. Robinson Voices of Queensland iv. 111 A person recruited temporarily..to make up the numbers in a gang. b. Of a person: to be included in a party merely for convenience of numbers; (hence) to have only nominal importance. ΚΠ 1976 Economist (Nexis) 21 Feb. 27 In some faculties standards would drop if less well qualified British students had to be accepted to make up numbers. 1985 L. Griffiths Arthur Daley's Guide to doing it Right 98 The rest are just making up the numbers. 1996 White Dwarf Sept. 98/2 The White Dwarf is a really hard character and any followers you send with him are just there to make up the numbers. P4. colloquial. one's number is up and variants [with reference to the number on a person's lottery ticket, or some other number by which a person may be identified, as an army number] : one's time (to die, etc.) has come, one is finished or doomed. See also Phrases 8. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > doomed to die one's number is up1804 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > beyond human control [phrase] > be destined to an adverse fate there is no way but one1542 one's number is up1804 to have a person's number on it1917 1804 C. Lamb Let. 13 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 130 Though this is a lottery to which none But G. Burnett would chuse to trust his all, there is no harm just to call in at Despair's office for a friend, and see if his number is come up. 1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights iv. 56 You couldn't tallygraft to Billy no more. His number's up awright, wiv no error. 1915 ‘Bartimeus’ Tall Ship i. 11 I think our number's up, old thing. 1937 V. Bartlett This is my Life xi. 188 The Director-General said that he would nevertheless like me to broadcast a short talk under my own name... My number was up. 1975 J. Aiken Voices in Empty House xviii. 331 He'd got leukaemia. He knew his number was up. 1989 G. E. Klyve & C. G. Oakley Legend of Perseus i. 33 Down and down the submarine sank. Danaë truly believed that her number, whichever one it was, was up, and waited tensely for the inrush of water. P5. slang (originally Military and Navy). to lose the number of one's mess: to die, to be killed. So to settle the number of a person's mess: to cause a person's death. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (intransitive)] > be killed to be deadc1000 fallOE spilla1300 suffera1616 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) toa1774 to lose the number of one's mess1807 to go up1825 to get his (also hers, theirs)1903 to cop (also stop, catch, get, etc.) a packet1916 click1917 not to know (or to wonder) what hit one1923 to get the works1928 to go for a burton1941 (to get) the chop or chopper1945 the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)] to be the death ofOE slayc1000 reavec1230 dissolvec1374 visita1382 extinguish1540 expiate1594 to carry away1603 to carry off1679 devive1869 to settle the number of a person's mess1881 1807 in A. Paget Paget Papers (1896) II. 314 If we are going against Copenhagen many of us will lose the number of our mess. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiv. 240 I have an idea that some of us will lose the number of our mess. 1881 J. F. T. Keane Six Months in Meccah 60 Fetching me one on the skull, that would have ‘settled the number of my mess’, but for the thickness of my too attractive head-dress. 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxx. 260 That meant a ride out to the blacks' camp and some of them losing the number of their mess. It did not matter who was shot. 1931 in H. M. Tomlinson Best Short Stories of War 387 It's the like o' them nine inchers can lose ye the number of yer mess, just by the blast of its passing. P6. Nautical. to make her number: (a) (of a ship) to communicate by signal the figure by which she is registered; (in later use) (also figurative) to make one's number (colloquial): to report one's arrival, to report for duty, to pay a duty or courtesy call, to make oneself known; †(b) (of a ship) to obtain a good place on the shipping register (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > make signals [verb (intransitive)] > (of a ship) communicate by signal to make her number1836 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [verb (intransitive)] > obtain a good place on register to make her number1836 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [phrase] > make oneself known to make one's number1836 1836 F. Marryat Pirate xvii, in Pirate & Three Cutters 199 The Enterprise had made her number outside; but that she was becalmed. 1861 J. Lamont Seasons with Sea-horses xviii. 293 We found that the ‘Anna Louise’ had only made her number twelve hours before us. 1880 Daily Tel. 14 Apr. 5/5 The good ship had a first-rate captain, a skilled crew, was well found and fitted, and she may ‘make her number’ yet. 1924 G. H. A. Willis Royal Navy 269 We went off to the Duke of Wellington to ‘make our number’ to the commodore's wife. 1927 B. M. Chambers Salt Junk xxx. 256 Almost every ship on her way to and from South America makes her number to the island [sc. Fernando Noronha]. 1945 ‘N. Shute’ Most Secret ix. 211 Captain (D.) was there to see them off; I made my number with him as representing V.A.C.O. and we stood chatting for a time. 1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard xii. 192 Ben saw himself on Speech Day, making his number with mothers in garden-party hats. 1989 Daily Tel. 27 June 21/8 I was able to make my number at every port we visited. P7. figurative. to get (also take, etc.) a person's number: to have or make an accurate assessment of a person's true character, motives, weaknesses, etc. Cf. measure n. 12b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > take the measure of measure?a1425 gauge1583 to sum up1631 measure1684 to touch off1766 to take (also get) the measure of1790 to get (also take, etc.) a person's number1853 reckon1853 to put up1864 size1884 to weigh up1894 to read the room1975 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lvii. 550 Whenever a person proclaims to you ‘In worldly matters I'm a child,’..that person is only a crying off from being held accountable, and..you have got that person's number, and it's Number One. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiv. 450 Let him go, for the present: I took his number, so to speak. 1908 N.Y. American 9 Aug. s1/1 We have their number now..and they are due for a cleaning. 1920 W. Hard Raymond Robins' Own Story 190 To hurt Bolshevism you need at least to get its number. 1970 G. Jackson Let. 29 May in Soledad Brother (1971) 265 Big Brother. He is rather transparent. I have his number. 1990 Independent 30 Jan. 19 She soon got the number of the football authorities... They were..forever telling her why something could not be done. P8. colloquial (originally Military). to have a person's number on it: (of a bullet, shell, etc.) to be destined to strike or kill that person (see quot. 1965). Also in extended use. Cf. name n. and adj. Phrases 18. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > be destined for a person (of bullet) to have a person's name on it1917 to have a person's number on it1917 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > beyond human control [phrase] > be destined to an adverse fate there is no way but one1542 one's number is up1804 to have a person's number on it1917 1917 A. G. Empey Over Top 312 He knows that it is only a matter of minutes before a German shell with his name and number on it will be knocking at his door. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 163 Name (or number) on, to have one's, said of a bullet that hit a man; i.e., that it was destined for him. 1965 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Long Trail 154 Number On, a fatalistic but consolatory superstition insisted that no man need fear any bullet or shell, however close it came, unless it had his regimental number (or his name and number) engraved on it. 1974 ‘C. Fremlin’ By Horror Haunted 15 I'm as safe here as..any where..if it's got your number on it, you'll get it, no matter where you are! 1992 Men's Health July 96/3 Somewhere out there is a rocker-recliner with your number on it. P9. a. North American (originally and chiefly Military). by the numbers [in humorous reference to the practice of military training (see quot. 1946)] : with military precision, mechanically, in a routine manner. ΚΠ c1918 J. F. Trounstine Give me Kiss by Numbers (song) 3 Give me a kiss by the numbers, I want to do things in a military way. 1921 Pirate Piece Nov. 3/1 By the numbers, men, refill the glass on 4. 1946 Amer. Speech 21 251 In training certain fundamental operations, such as putting on a gas mask, are taught by the numbers—at the count of one, the carrier is unfastened, at the count of two the mask is removed... To do anything ‘by the numbers’ is to do it in a practiced, routine, semi-automatic manner. 1994 S. Matheson Flying Frontiers ix. 173 I'm not a ‘by the numbers’ pilot—I'm a ‘by the seat of the pants’ pilot. b. Originally British Military. by numbers: following simple instructions (as if) identified by numbers; (frequently derogatory) performed or accomplished in a mechanical, schematic, or unimaginative manner. Usually as postmodifier forming phrases. See also to paint by number(s) at paint v.1 Phrases 4. ΚΠ 1941 Faugh-a-Ballagh 34 73/2 Once we progressed beyond the ‘about turn by numbers’ stage and ventured forth into the field, things began to move. a1944 N. Coward in B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics (1998) 217/2 Let's fly away To where we don't do things by numbers Where no ‘Reveille’ wrecks our slumbers. 1987 D. Coulby & T. Booth Producing & reducing Disaffection 88 Classroom Assistant (Infants)... 9.30: Helped T with house picture (drawing by numbers). 9.45: Help A with colouring of shapes. 1990 T. Brighouse & B. Moon Managing National Curriculum 106 The last thing we want is teaching by numbers, reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units. 1995 Independent 7 Nov. ii. 14/2 A rare moment of tender loving design amidst a sea of cynical design-by-numbers clothes. 2001 Muzik Jan. 96/4 Ferry Corsten has kept his head below the parapet... This, however, is enormo trance-by-numbers. P10. colloquial. to lose one's number: to make a gaffe, to lose face. rare. ΚΠ a1936 R. Kipling Something of Myself (1937) iv. 86 He produced a bottle of real Tokay, which I tasted, and lost my number badly by saying that it reminded me of some medicinal wine. P11. a. U.S. colloquial (originally in African-American usage). to do a number (occasionally to lay a number): to act with destructive force or impact; to criticize or humiliate; (hence) to have a strong, usually adverse effect. Frequently with on. ΚΠ 1968 H. Lit Unbelievable Dict. Hip Words 12 Do a number, to get mad; make a scene; to tell somebody off; blow your cool. 1972 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Sept. 93 There were about four or five cats doing a number on (beating hell out of) a Puerto Rican. 1974 Maclean's Nov. 19 I was on my own among male relatives, male bosses, male lovers who were all, at one time or another, doing numbers on me. 1982 S. Bellow Dean's December iv. 63 They did a number on Ridpath. They printed damaging statements. 1991 N. Baker U & I vii. 118 When Ada finally did arrive, Updike did such a number on it in his review that he felt compelled to explain..that he writes faster than he reads. 2002 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Electronic ed.) 6 Dec. Navigating bumpy dirt tracks and completing hairpin turns often does a number on shocks, tires, belts and other parts. b. colloquial. to do a —— number and variants: to behave in the specified manner (frequently with the implication of predictable or habitual behaviour). ΚΠ 1968 R. Gover JC Saves 20 Soon's somebody say boo at 'em [sc. the police], gonna be doin they main number [i.e. shooting at people]. 1970 J. Didion Play it as it Lays ix. 42 We've been through this... We've done this number about fifty times. 1980 R. Rhodes Last Safari i. ii. 41 She did the garden-club number and the social number and she wasn't interested in his work. 1991 F. Cooper Jay Loves Lucy 124 We had this godawful evening... We did this whole fury number: I was pissed as a fart..and I just threw the lot at her. c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to do (also pull, run) a number: to trick or cheat; to deceive. Usually with on. ΚΠ 1971 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 June 95/1 To do a number: To affect someone, with the implication that it's in some devious manner. 1983 E. L. Sturz Widening Circles 9 He's running a number on us! 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World 77 The numbers we did. The scams we pulled. 1995 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 5 Mar. 17 Mr Palliser, who has already double-crossed the mystery genre, is now seen to be pulling a number on narrative and interpretation in general. d. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) to do one's number: to perform one's required or expected role; ‘to do one's stuff’. ΚΠ 1970 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 4 iii.–iv. 17 Don't do your number, to desist; (command).] 1978 C. James in Observer 11 June 23/2 I watched a computerised gantry-mill do its complex number with very few human beings present. 1985 New Yorker 11 Nov. 86/2 Lawyers have a vaudeville turn of phrase; they talk about going into court and ‘doing their number’. 1991 Times 14 Feb. 23/1 Then I went to Australia, got off the plane desperately ill and found that the gall bladder had done its number. < as lemmas |
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