英语词汇“can't-eat”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C2. Compounds with the negative form can't prefixed to the base form of a verb, forming nouns denoting persons who cannot perform an action or (occasionally) actions that are impossible, as can't-eat, can't-work, etc. Also can't-doing: inability to perform an action.

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1849 New Eng. Farmer 28 Apr. 149/1 A period which to most men, and especially the can't do's and can't waits of the world, look [sic] in the retrospect as a dream, a period of which they have an indefinite recollection.

1886 Parl. Deb. 3rd. Ser. 309 1139 Member for Cork to show how the Land Court is to distinguish between what he calls the ‘can't pays’ from the ‘won't pays’?

1889 Home-maker Feb. 370/2 A spare-room closet in our flat must be reckoned among the ‘can't-haves’.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 2/1 Can't-eat, when applied, say, to lobster, is one thing; can't-eat, when relating to bread, is quite another.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 1/3 Achievement..is open to fewer persons than can't-doing.

1904 Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 6/5 We have then the ‘Can't Works’.

1954 J. Thompson Hell of Woman (1990) xii. 99 There were a couple of these punks that were always kicking, hinting maybe that I was crapping them on the can't-confirms.

1979 Princeton Alumni Weekly 21 May 26/1 The ‘can't comes’ number 64, and the ‘no answers’ 79.

2008 D. A. McDonald World City Syndrome ii. vii. 229 National and municipal authorities going to great lengths to separate out the ‘can't pays’ from the ‘won't pays’.

单词	can't-eat
释义	> as lemmas can't-eat C2. Compounds with the negative form can't prefixed to the base form of a verb, forming nouns denoting persons who cannot perform an action or (occasionally) actions that are impossible, as can't-eat, can't-work, etc. Also can't-doing: inability to perform an action. ΚΠ 1849 New Eng. Farmer 28 Apr. 149/1 A period which to most men, and especially the can't do's and can't waits of the world, look [sic] in the retrospect as a dream, a period of which they have an indefinite recollection. 1886 Parl. Deb. 3rd. Ser. 309 1139 Member for Cork to show how the Land Court is to distinguish between what he calls the ‘can't pays’ from the ‘won't pays’? 1889 Home-maker Feb. 370/2 A spare-room closet in our flat must be reckoned among the ‘can't-haves’. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 2/1 Can't-eat, when applied, say, to lobster, is one thing; can't-eat, when relating to bread, is quite another. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 1/3 Achievement..is open to fewer persons than can't-doing. 1904 Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 6/5 We have then the ‘Can't Works’. 1954 J. Thompson Hell of Woman (1990) xii. 99 There were a couple of these punks that were always kicking, hinting maybe that I was crapping them on the can't-confirms. 1979 Princeton Alumni Weekly 21 May 26/1 The ‘can't comes’ number 64, and the ‘no answers’ 79. 2008 D. A. McDonald World City Syndrome ii. vii. 229 National and municipal authorities going to great lengths to separate out the ‘can't pays’ from the ‘won't pays’. extracted from canv.¹ < as lemmas
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