英语词汇“but what”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. but what.

(a) In negative or interrogative constructions, after doubt (noun or verb), reversing the effect of the negative or interrogative so as to affirm the dependent clause more emphatically, as in there is no doubt but what you could do better = ‘there is no doubt whatsoever that you could do better’ (cf. but conj. 9b). Also after verbs expressing mental affirmation, such as know (cf. but conj. 9a). Now chiefly U.S. regional and nonstandard.

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1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 5 And I do not doubt, but what my desyre, what your loue toward it, the honestie of shoting, the profite that may come therby to many other, shall get the seconde parte out of you at the last.

1644 E. Arnold tr. D. Pareus Comm. Revelation (i. 11) 21 To the end he might not doubt, but what he did was truely divine.

1763 J. Wesley Let. 23 Aug. (1931) IV. 221 There is no doubt but what you at first experienced was a real foretaste of the blessing.

1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 476 I don't know but what it may be better fun dining in this way, and eating as much as I like.

1857 H. P. Montgomery Let. 29 Nov. in C. F. Williams et al. Documentary Hist. Arkansas (1984) 68 There is no doubt but what we can get more work than we can do.

1916 L. W. Robinson Let. 14 Aug. in K. B. Betheny From Miners' Doublehouse (2007) App. A. 243 There is no doubt but what many improvements could be made.

1934 P. G. Wodehouse Thank you, Jeeves xii. 162 Dotty, beyond a question. And who knew but what that dottiness might not run in the family?

2006 C. McCarthy Sunset Limited 50 Oh I dont doubt but what it's possible to die from bein full of shit.

†(b) After a negative expressed or implied in the main clause, and implying a negative in the dependent clause, with the subject or object of that clause unexpressed: except what or who; that..not, as in there are few politicians but what are corrupt = ‘there are few politicians who are not corrupt’. Cf. but conj. 10e(b), but conj. 10d. Obsolete.

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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxvi. 924 Canel..may nought be yfounde but what falleþ by his owne wight or is ysmyte doun wiþ leded arwes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 14 Padua affords nothing but what is kinde.

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura sig. b7^v Never any of the Antients excelled in these Arts, but what were Gentlemen.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 381 Few are Confident, but what are first Careless.

1711 Medley No. 24 I don't know one Politician but what Drunkenness wou'd make a Sot of.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. May 247/2 Of the sails that were left, I believe there is not a cloth but what has a shot through it.

1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 45 There are not many masters of eminence but what have a hundred originals palmed upon them more than ever they painted in their lives.

1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xiv. p. clxxxv (note) There are few madmen but what are observed to be afraid of the strait waistcoat.

1796 C. Smith Marchmont IV. 133 Not one of these insinuations but what gathered something from malevolence.

1846 Jrnl. Health & Dis. Apr. 320 Each [hound] strained his best to reach the game, and not a spirit among them but what would have haunched or throated him with the last throe of life remaining.

(c) After a negative expressed or implied in the main clause, and implying a negative in the dependent clause, expressing an inevitable accompanying circumstance or result: so that..not, when..not, but that. Cf. but conj. 10b. Now rare.Now generally expressed by without and a gerund (e.g. I never go there but what I visit her = ‘I never go there without visiting her’).

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1662 H. More Immortality of Soul (ed. 2) 96 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings We cannot discover any immediate operation of any kind of soul..but what it first works upon, etc.

1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 43 There hardly arose an Incident, but what our Fellow-Traveller would repeat twenty or thirty Verses in a Breath.

1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 47 Nor am I yet so old but what I can rough it still.

1908 W. H. Davies Autobiogr. Super-tramp xxiv. 211 I seldom lie down at night but what I am half skimished (half drunk), for I assure you I never go short of my skimish.

1933 D. L. Sayers Hangman's Holiday (1978) 28 I never sees a bunch o' grass but what I think of Mrs Susan Brown.

(d) (With unexpressed non-referential it and copula) not but what: (affirming the statement in the dependent clause) it is not but that, (sometimes also) it is not to say but that. Cf. but conj. 10a.

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1756 tr. Mod. Observ. Antient Hist.: Chapter 4 18 Not but what they entertained shrewd Suspicions of the Part which Demosthenes and Astius were now playing.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. vi. 88 Not but what I would go to—(what was I going to say?) to the plantations for the church with pleasure.

1883 E. Fitzgerald Let. 9 Apr. in A. C. Benson E. Fitzgerald (1905) i. 19 Never having read his father's [poems]..till drawn to them by me... Not but what he loved and admired his father in every shape but that.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) vi. 284 Not but what many changes had been wrought.

1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxi. 257 You should have kept quiet in the house to-day. Not but what you are certainly looking better than you did early this morning.

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon (1968) vii. 117 Not but what it'll be a kind of busman's holiday for you.

1984 S. Keery Last Romantic out of Belfast (2011) xi. 126 Not but what all that family was in fact rotten with consumption.

2011 A. Elliott Pemberley to Waterloo 181 Not but what I'm certain our lads will give old Boney's lot a grand beating tomorrow.

†(e) With phrases expressing or implying a warning or threat, equivalent to a construction with ‘even if it has to be that’ introducing the main clause. Cf. but conj. 8b(c). Obsolete.

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1779 H. Cowley Who's the Dupe? ii. ii. 31 I'll buy him twice as many books as a College Library; but what I'll bribe him.

1807 Salmagundi 25 Apr. 166 In vain did the wind whistle and the storm beat; my aunt would waddle through mud and mire, over the whole town, but what she would visit them.

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons III. xvi. ix. 168 It will go hard but what I shall find something to suit you.

1891 Cent. Mag. Feb. 595/2 I'll go through this town like a fine-tooth comb but what I'll find him.

单词	but what
释义	> as lemmas but what a. but what. (a) In negative or interrogative constructions, after doubt (noun or verb), reversing the effect of the negative or interrogative so as to affirm the dependent clause more emphatically, as in there is no doubt but what you could do better = ‘there is no doubt whatsoever that you could do better’ (cf. but conj. 9b). Also after verbs expressing mental affirmation, such as know (cf. but conj. 9a). Now chiefly U.S. regional and nonstandard. ΚΠ 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 5 And I do not doubt, but what my desyre, what your loue toward it, the honestie of shoting, the profite that may come therby to many other, shall get the seconde parte out of you at the last. 1644 E. Arnold tr. D. Pareus Comm. Revelation (i. 11) 21 To the end he might not doubt, but what he did was truely divine. 1763 J. Wesley Let. 23 Aug. (1931) IV. 221 There is no doubt but what you at first experienced was a real foretaste of the blessing. 1840 New Monthly Mag. 59 476 I don't know but what it may be better fun dining in this way, and eating as much as I like. 1857 H. P. Montgomery Let. 29 Nov. in C. F. Williams et al. Documentary Hist. Arkansas (1984) 68 There is no doubt but what we can get more work than we can do. 1916 L. W. Robinson Let. 14 Aug. in K. B. Betheny From Miners' Doublehouse (2007) App. A. 243 There is no doubt but what many improvements could be made. 1934 P. G. Wodehouse Thank you, Jeeves xii. 162 Dotty, beyond a question. And who knew but what that dottiness might not run in the family? 2006 C. McCarthy Sunset Limited 50 Oh I dont doubt but what it's possible to die from bein full of shit. †(b) After a negative expressed or implied in the main clause, and implying a negative in the dependent clause, with the subject or object of that clause unexpressed: except what or who; that..not, as in there are few politicians but what are corrupt = ‘there are few politicians who are not corrupt’. Cf. but conj. 10e(b), but conj. 10d. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxvi. 924 Canel..may nought be yfounde but what falleþ by his owne wight or is ysmyte doun wiþ leded arwes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 14 Padua affords nothing but what is kinde. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura sig. b7^v Never any of the Antients excelled in these Arts, but what were Gentlemen. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 381 Few are Confident, but what are first Careless. 1711 Medley No. 24 I don't know one Politician but what Drunkenness wou'd make a Sot of. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. May 247/2 Of the sails that were left, I believe there is not a cloth but what has a shot through it. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph I. 45 There are not many masters of eminence but what have a hundred originals palmed upon them more than ever they painted in their lives. 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) xiv. p. clxxxv (note) There are few madmen but what are observed to be afraid of the strait waistcoat. 1796 C. Smith Marchmont IV. 133 Not one of these insinuations but what gathered something from malevolence. 1846 Jrnl. Health & Dis. Apr. 320 Each [hound] strained his best to reach the game, and not a spirit among them but what would have haunched or throated him with the last throe of life remaining. (c) After a negative expressed or implied in the main clause, and implying a negative in the dependent clause, expressing an inevitable accompanying circumstance or result: so that..not, when..not, but that. Cf. but conj. 10b. Now rare.Now generally expressed by without and a gerund (e.g. I never go there but what I visit her = ‘I never go there without visiting her’). ΚΠ 1662 H. More Immortality of Soul (ed. 2) 96 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings We cannot discover any immediate operation of any kind of soul..but what it first works upon, etc. 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 43 There hardly arose an Incident, but what our Fellow-Traveller would repeat twenty or thirty Verses in a Breath. 1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 47 Nor am I yet so old but what I can rough it still. 1908 W. H. Davies Autobiogr. Super-tramp xxiv. 211 I seldom lie down at night but what I am half skimished (half drunk), for I assure you I never go short of my skimish. 1933 D. L. Sayers Hangman's Holiday (1978) 28 I never sees a bunch o' grass but what I think of Mrs Susan Brown. (d) (With unexpressed non-referential it and copula) not but what: (affirming the statement in the dependent clause) it is not but that, (sometimes also) it is not to say but that. Cf. but conj. 10a. ΚΠ 1756 tr. Mod. Observ. Antient Hist.: Chapter 4 18 Not but what they entertained shrewd Suspicions of the Part which Demosthenes and Astius were now playing. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. vi. 88 Not but what I would go to—(what was I going to say?) to the plantations for the church with pleasure. 1883 E. Fitzgerald Let. 9 Apr. in A. C. Benson E. Fitzgerald (1905) i. 19 Never having read his father's [poems]..till drawn to them by me... Not but what he loved and admired his father in every shape but that. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) vi. 284 Not but what many changes had been wrought. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxi. 257 You should have kept quiet in the house to-day. Not but what you are certainly looking better than you did early this morning. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon (1968) vii. 117 Not but what it'll be a kind of busman's holiday for you. 1984 S. Keery Last Romantic out of Belfast (2011) xi. 126 Not but what all that family was in fact rotten with consumption. 2011 A. Elliott Pemberley to Waterloo 181 Not but what I'm certain our lads will give old Boney's lot a grand beating tomorrow. †(e) With phrases expressing or implying a warning or threat, equivalent to a construction with ‘even if it has to be that’ introducing the main clause. Cf. but conj. 8b(c). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1779 H. Cowley Who's the Dupe? ii. ii. 31 I'll buy him twice as many books as a College Library; but what I'll bribe him. 1807 Salmagundi 25 Apr. 166 In vain did the wind whistle and the storm beat; my aunt would waddle through mud and mire, over the whole town, but what she would visit them. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons III. xvi. ix. 168 It will go hard but what I shall find something to suit you. 1891 Cent. Mag. Feb. 595/2 I'll go through this town like a fine-tooth comb but what I'll find him. extracted from whatpron.adv.int.adj.¹conj.n. but what †(b) but what: but after all. Obsolete. [After Middle French, French mais quoi?] ΚΠ 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 63 Ye shall haue verie few, but say, that they are enimies to euill... But what? As they neuer knew what goodnes meant, so they knowe as little of the contrarie. 1605 P. Erondelle French Garden N 7 b O Marguerite!..thou hast beene heeretofore greatly esteemed in France, but what? all other thinges doe wither,..as well as flowers. extracted from whatpron.adv.int.adj.¹conj.n. < as lemmas
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