单词 | can be able |
释义 | > as lemmascan be able P5. can be able: can have the means, capacity, or qualifications, or sufficient power to do something; can be in such a position that it is possible to do something. Now chiefly South African and West African.could with non-temporal function (esp. in senses 15, 19) sometimes occurs in this phrase in general use. ΚΠ ?1526 G. Hervet in tr. Erasmus De Immensa Dei Misericordia Ep. Ded. sig. A.ij I knowe ye tendernes of my wyt moche more sklender than yt I can be able to beare ye weyght of suche an enterprise. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Ei Neither can any Lawe be able violentlye to force the inward thought of man. 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 31 An aspersion..that not all the bloud of that rope of Popes, which constitute Antichrist, could ever be able to expiate. 1686 F. Philipps Investigatio Jurium Antiquorum xxiv. 403 If the Houses of Peers and Commons in Parliament should disagree who but their King and Superior can or could be able to reconcile their discording Votes, Opinions or Resolves. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. 241 Ask..whether he can be able to make a dark Chamber, that can be turned which way one will as readily and easily as the Eye. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) i. 78 No army..could be able to contend alone with the English forces. 1839 Drake's Road Bk. London & Birmingham Railway ix. 99 Yet, whatever may be the first emotions to which it gives rise, few, we think, can be able to gaze upon it long without feeling elevated and ennobled. 1877 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 1 62 Nor is it improbable..that Whalley could be able to make such a journey. 1967 Jrnl. Risk & Insurance 34 498/1 So that he can be able to use it as a source of reference. 1985 K. Saro-Wiwa Sozaboy (2003) i. 3 Then the people begin to say that now wey soza and police be government, nobody can be able to arrest traffic when they chop bribe. 2012 in P. Alexander et al. Marikana (2013) 65 We want to get decent wages so that we can be able to support our families. < as lemmas |
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