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单词 whit
释义
whitwhit /wɪt/ noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINwhit
Origin:
1400-1500 wight ‘creature, thing, bit’ (11-19 centuries), from Old English wiht
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • An impending thirtieth birthday and a two and a half year-old daughter called Sophie haven't turned her fashion tastes one whit.
  • And, remarkably, it changed her personality not one whit.
  • But he conducts himself in all situations with a dignity not one whit lessened by his shortness.
  • I know that his intervention was well meant and had not a whit of political mischief about it.
  • This lack of technical wizardry does not seem to make a whit of difference in their lives.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • The patients' needs don't seem to matter a whit to the hospital.
  • For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
  • I know that his intervention was well meant and had not a whit of political mischief about it.
not a whit old-fashioned not at all:  Sara had not changed a whit.
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