单词 | too true |
释义 | > as lemmastoo true c. Expressing, sorrowfully or indignantly, regret or disapproval: to a lamentable, reprehensible, painful, or intolerable extent; regrettably, painfully, esp. as too true. just too bad: see bad adj., n.2, and adv. Phrases 4. Cf. 5c. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [adverb] > lamentably ruthfullyc1225 tooc1275 piteouslyc1300 pitifullyc1450 pietously1474 wretchedly1546 lamentably1585 deplorably1653 sadly1655 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2627 To late heom þuste are heo þer comen. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4618 Ac to prout he was & to fals, þat ssende þis lond alas. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 454 & þus ech siche were herde of ech, but þis abusioun were to straunge. 1447 Rolls of Parl. V. 137/1 It apperith to openly in som persones. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 501 The olde prouerbes be to true. ?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. D2 Either witles, which is too bad, or wilfull, which is worse. 1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 15 Which is too well pleasing to the adverse partee. 1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1838) I. i. iv. § i. 333/2 Some of them, alas too many, were heard swearing very rudely. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots Aug. This was too cool. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 663 It is indeed but too true that the taste for blood is a taste which..men..may..speedily acquire. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 87 At best a blunderer, and too probably a traitor. 1900 C. M. Yonge Mod. Broods i. 5 ‘I am considered quite passée——’ ‘My dear! With your art, and music, and all!’ ‘Too true!’ 1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. xxxi. 261 ‘The presumption is that he slept home all night and therefore couldn't have committed the crime. Yet physically it was possible.’.. ‘Too true, too true,’ murmured Ellery. 1976 N. Freeling Lake Isle x. 67 ‘Rare, that sort of saint.’ ‘Too true.’ < as lemmas |
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