| 单词 | yes-or-no |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyes-or-no yes-or-no adj. answerable by or definable in terms of a simple affirmation or negation; = yes-no adj. 2; cf. more or less at more adv. 3a. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > definite or determinate > determining or defining > of questions, decisions, etc. yes-or-no1888 yes-no1898 1888 Boston Post 26 Jan. Mr. Quincy replied that he was not ready to give a yes or no answer to that question. 1911 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 12 Feb. 16/3 When Jones had flatly declined to answer a yes-or-no question the compass of the opposition to the inquiry had also been boxed. 1961 F. W. Householder in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics 17/1 Beside this graded kind of ‘grammaticalness’..there is also an absolute yes-or-no type. 1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. v. 124 But this, like synonymy, is a ‘more or less’ not a ‘yes or no’ relation. 1976 H. Kemelman Wednesday Rabbi got Wet xlvi. 257 The law is not a yes-or-no thing. 1979 Economist 16 June 98/2 Whitehall's traditional passion for compromise only makes for trouble in a crisis which needs yes-or-no decisions, fast. 2005 Real Simple June 192/2 Try not to go on a lawyer-like attack with a litany of yes-or-no questions. < as lemmas |
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