请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 yes-or-no
释义

> as lemmas

yes-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.
extracted from yesadv.n.int.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/10 21:18:55