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单词 word for word
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word for wordadv.adj.

Brit. /ˌwəːd fə ˈwəːd/, U.S. /ˈwərd fər ˈwərd/
Forms: see word n. and for prep., conj., n., and adv.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: word n., for prep.
Etymology: < word n. + for prep. + word n. Compare earlier word by word at word n. and int. Phrases 2a and similar constructions at word n. and int. Phrases 2a, and compare also verbatim adv.
A. adv.
In the exact, or (in reference to translation) precisely corresponding, words; = verbatim adv. 1. Also: exactly, in every particular; = verbatim adv. 2.
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fro word unto wordeOE
word after wordeOE
word by wordeOE
word in wordeOE
word for wordc1400
after the worda1450
verbatim?1503
verbatimly1587
verbally1588
verbatim et literatim1642
syllabically1654
totidem verbis1659
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [adverb] > word for word
fro word unto wordeOE
word by wordeOE
word for wordc1400
verbatim1563
metaphrastically1577
literally1591
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 2918 (MED) Word for woord þus hij spake.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 422 By my trouthe I quytte hem word for word.
a1425 ( H. Daniel Liber Uricrisiarum (Wellcome 225) 483 (MED) Þes gyfys Ysaac, þe noble Jew, nerhand word for worde in þe last Buk of Uryns.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1002 I coude folwe word for word Virgile.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 61 He..dyde do saye to hym word for worde lyke as the physicien had sayd.
1538 Bible (Coverdale) Ded. + ij b We do not followe thys olde Latyn texte word for word.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 24 He..speaks three or four languages word for word without booke. View more context for this quotation
1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes Pref. If a man should undertake to translate Pindar word for word.
1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xxii. 741 Some..have been able to rehearse the whole New Testament word for word.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 191 Dwell not on Incidents already known; Nor Word for Word translate with painful Care.
1779 F. Burney Let. Nov. (1994) 417 This speech, word for word, I have already heard from him literally 4 Times.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxii. 272 Mrs. Jarley..recounted word for word the affronts she had received.
1891 Law Times 92 107/1 The 8th section of the Act of 1874 is word for word the same as the 40th section of the Act of 1833.
1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. iv. 97 There is a striking example in a talk taken down word for word from a Red Indian in California.
1958 Visct. Montgomery Mem. (1961) 500 I consider that his description applies almost word for word to the present day.
2005 Hotdog June 73/4 I take Python as a definitive counterexample to the surprise theory of humour—clearly it's funny even after it has been memorised word for word, such that no surprise remains.
B. adj. (attributive). Usually with hyphens.
That corresponds with or follows an original word for word; = verbatim adj. 1.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > word-for-word
word by wordeOE
word for word?1611
verbatim1834
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [adjective] > word for word
word for word?1611
literal1693
?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads To Rdr. sig. A 4v Those Translators..that affect Their word-for-word traductions.
1824 W. Cobbett French Gram. ix. sig. F4v This is the word for word translation. We might use requisite, needful, or any other word or words expressive of what ought to take place.
1895 Biblical World 5 220 A word-for-word translation would read: ‘Wherefore we henceforth no one know according to the flesh: even though we knew according to the flesh Christ, yet now no longer do we know’.
1927 L. T. Hobhouse in R. J. S. McDowall Mind 311 A complete terminology, with a word for word correspondence to our present psychological terminology.
1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 25 July b 4/5 Biblical literalism—belief that the Bible is God's actual, word-for-word composition, to be taken literally as fact.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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