| 单词 | to wish farther |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto wish (any one) farther 4. To or at a greater distance; by a greater interval. to wish (any one) farther. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adverb] > to or by a greater distance fartherc1380 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 107 Ech man shulde sue him or ferþere or nerþere. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. xvii. 280 It is ferder from the lyght more than eny of the other colours be. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lii. 76 The leaves be..standing farder asunder one from another. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxxxiii. 119 Flesh of a drie complexion, is better neere caluing time than farder from it. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 140 He could hop on one leg farther than I. 1786 F. Burney Court Jrnls. & Lett. (2011) I. 102 Miss Plauta..only wished the Maid farther for never finding us out till we began to be comfortable without her. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 50 He would catch Her beauty farther than the falcon spies. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. (at cited word) I'll be farther if I do it, i.e. I won't do it. 1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. vii. 106 Can anything be farther from theology..than stone-cutting? < as lemmas |
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