英语词汇“by piecemeal(s”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. estimation or measurement of any kind. Whence the phrases by the great (obsolete) = by wholesale, by piecemeal(s, by retail, etc.

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c1000 Ælfric Leviticus xxvi. 26 And ge etaþ hlaf be gewihte.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13779 Fif hundred bi tale fusden to-somne.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1291 Seuyn thousand be sowme all of sure knightes.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Lament. iii. 16 And he hath broken my teeth by number.

1611 Bible (King James) Josh. iii. 4 A space..about two thousand cubites by measure.

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece ii. 203 They sell it by weight.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 128 For ev'ry Bloom..An Autumn Apple was by tale restor'd.

1886 Law Times 80 166/2 A miner..paid by piecework.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxxiii. 65/2 By meanes of their Brokers they buy by the great, and sell them againe by the peece.1691 Reply Vind. Disc. Unreasonableness of New Separ. 14 I have Englished your Latin by Piecemeal.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 366 Carpenters went on board..to treat about the work they were to do; all which they proposed to undertake by the great.1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 52 279 The..people are ‘perishing by wholesale’.

单词	by piecemeal(s
释义	> as lemmas by piecemeal(s a. estimation or measurement of any kind. Whence the phrases by the great (obsolete) = by wholesale, by piecemeal(s, by retail, etc. ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Leviticus xxvi. 26 And ge etaþ hlaf be gewihte. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13779 Fif hundred bi tale fusden to-somne. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1291 Seuyn thousand be sowme all of sure knightes. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Lament. iii. 16 And he hath broken my teeth by number. 1611 Bible (King James) Josh. iii. 4 A space..about two thousand cubites by measure. View more context for this quotation 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece ii. 203 They sell it by weight. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 128 For ev'ry Bloom..An Autumn Apple was by tale restor'd. View more context for this quotation 1886 Law Times 80 166/2 A miner..paid by piecework. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxxiii. 65/2 By meanes of their Brokers they buy by the great, and sell them againe by the peece.1691 Reply Vind. Disc. Unreasonableness of New Separ. 14 I have Englished your Latin by Piecemeal.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 366 Carpenters went on board..to treat about the work they were to do; all which they proposed to undertake by the great.1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 52 279 The..people are ‘perishing by wholesale’. extracted from byprep.adv. < as lemmas
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