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单词 to know one's abc
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to know one's ABC
a. The alphabet. Frequently with reference to the teaching or learning of this, now esp. in to know one's ABC. Also in plural in same sense.In later use sometimes used to typify elementary education.
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abecedariumOE
ABCc1325
alphabet?a1475
character1569
abecedary1596
one's P's and Q's1763
characteristic1769
staverow1866
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5393 (MED) He was more þan ten ȝer old ar he couþe is abece.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 259 He founded as meny abbayes as beþ lettres in þe A B C [L. in alphabeto].
c1400 Last Age of Church (1840) p. xxviii (MED) Euery lettre in þe abece may be souned wiþ opyn mouþ saue m lettre one.
c1500 2 Miracles Virgin (Tanner 407) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1923) 38 374 (MED) He was set to þe boke for to spel and rede His a b se and pater noster.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 139 There is xxii. letters in the Abce of hebrew.
1553 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughmans Crede sig. Aii A, and all myn A, b, c, after haue I lerned.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Abecè the A B C or Criscrosse-row.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xiv. 68 Master Tubal Holophernes..taught him his A B C, so well, that he could say it by heart backwards.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ix. 244 As he was little, they would certainly begin him at the ABC.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 213 Sorting and puzzling with a deal of glee Those seeds of science called his A B C.
1832 T. Hood Huggins & Duggins in Comic Ann. 146 I'd carve her name on every tree, But I don't know my A. B. C.
1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass ix. 192 Of course you know your ABC.
1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) i. 11 He could lisp out sentences from Virgil when other children were still entangled in their A B C.
1961 L. Stuart tr. F. Castro Hist. will absolve Me 42 Who among us has not learned his ABC's in the little public schoolhouse?
2002 R. Mistry Family Matters (2003) xxi. 484 Unschooled labourers who never learned their ABC.
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