| 单词 | without-tears |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithout-tears c. in colloquial phrase without tears, without difficulty or distress (frequently used to describe a method whereby some discipline is easily mastered). Also without-tears attributive phrase. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] with a wet finger1542 for the whistling1546 like a bird1825 as easy (or simple) as falling (or rolling) off a log1839 without tears1857 like a dream1882 as easy as winking1907 the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] lightlyOE eatha1225 easyc1380 tenderc1400 lightsome1440 rife1557 facile1559 eefe1578 problemless1911 easy-breezy1948 without tears1962 1857 F. L. Mortimer (title) Reading without tears. 1877 F. L. Mortimer (title) Latin without tears; or, One word a day. 1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 12 Dec. 623/2 (heading) Ibsen without tears. 1914 W. Owen Let. 1 June (1967) 257 I have a design in sending you this, viz. to keep you hungry to learn French I hope it won't be long before you read such works ‘without tears’; at least without tears due to grammatical difficulties. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World xvii. 280 Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears—that's what soma is. 1937 T. Rattigan French without Tears (title) French without tears. 1956 New Statesman 11 Feb. 143/1 The late 19th-century concept of progress without tears. 1962 Times 7 June 17/3 It is a without-tears book. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy i. 19 Charles and Mary..were well-mannered young people, and docile at least to the extent of being resigned to Scrabble as a species of Philology without tears. < as lemmas |
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