| 单词 | not |
| 释义 | not I. or -nt or -n't 1. a. — used as a function word to turn an expression consisting of a word or group of words into an implicitly opposite expression < not pregnant > < not in sight > < the team did not win > < if he will not go > < the telephone is not ringing > < will not pay the bill > < there has not been time — Lois M. Miller > < a faint smell of disinfectant, but it did not reek of the stuff — Phil Stong > < we could not defend the Philippines — James Forrestal > < recommend that we not offend against charity — G.H.Dunne > < may insist that prefabricated products be not used in the buildings they work in — T.W.Arnold > < cannot read or write — Vicki Baum > < yield not to temptation > b. < my cold is not worse than yesterday > < was not less fortunate in marriage — T.B.Macaulay > < there were not cleaner windows … in the whole street — Charles Dickens > < should like to know how language evolved from what was not language — C.F.Hockett > c. < not at all satisfactory > < not near so expensive > < it is certainly not the viewpoint of the minister — C.F.Hunter > < thou shalt not kill > d. — used as a function word to stand for the opposite of a preceding group of words < changes in the environment are sometimes beneficial to the animals and sometimes not — W.H.Dowdeswell > < the little girl used to sit very quiet and be good and the little boy used not — James Stephens > < if not, you'll be sorry > and often correlatively < will he be here ornot > < whether you need to make decisions or not — W.J.Reilly > e. — used especially with think to negate a following noun clause < I don't think it will rain > < don't think I'll go > or without a verb to introduce a clause < not that it matters > < not that it doesn't matter > < not that my congratulations to her would not have been tempered with misgivings — Walter de la Mare > < the poem is bad, not because it is didactic — S.E.Hyman > < not to go is a mistake > f. — used without modifying the meaning of an expression containing another negative < couldn't stand it no longer — Mark Twain > — compare double negative 2. — used as a generalized negative function word to express an unspecified degree of comparative difference varying from almost identical to almost opposite < today is not Wednesday > < in better light you can see the cloth is not black > < not a full cup, please > < five dollars doesn't count in that place > < the question is not as simple as it seems — A.G.Hays > < will be found that it is not so easy as it seems — J.A.Powell > < in the auditorium there were many not idolators who found their admiration mixed with apprehension — John Mason Brown > < the holdups he took part in were not carefully planned — Croswell Bowen > < was not merely a man of words — Quarterly Journal of Speech > < he's not all there > < try not to hurt me so much > < not paying careful attention to the warnings > < charged with not assuming full responsibility > < after your not heavy body shrunken in death — Amy Lowell > 3. < not a red cent > < not a dog would bark at him — Washington Irving > < five wounded and not a man killed — S.C.Williams > 4. < ten years old and not been to a circus > 5. < whalers were more often than not three or four years away from port — Sacheverell Sitwell > 6. < while not as interesting as similar works — E.C.Carter > — usually used with an intensive (as very, quite, always, wholly) and sometimes with half < the clergy and elders … by and large, are not very helpful — John Cogley > < for the armed forces, life is not quite as trying as it is for the civilian — Emily Hahn > < the canvasses by other writers have not been as revealing — Harold Fields > < the irony of this not altogether heartening disclosure — Sat. Eve. Post > < the conditions today are not half bad > 7. — used as a function word before a negative word to express an intentionally unemphatic affirmation < not dishonest > < not implausibly > < not atypical > < not inconsistent with law — U.S. Code > < not unreasonable or unexpected — Atlantic > 8. — used as the first element of the correlatives not only … but < will have brought about not only the defect of evil, but some permanent good — Julian Huxley > < effective not only in terminating an unlawful conspiracy, but in limiting price increases — T.W.Arnold > of the correlatives not only … but also < not only the spelling of the words, but also the grammatical forms become conventionalized — William Chomsky > of the correlatives not … but < not a country town but a metropolis — Leslie Stephen > < our most significant contribution to general culture, however, was made not in modern times but in Saxon times — Kemp Malone > of the correlatives not … nor < not for wealth nor for fame did he strive — J.A.Powell > < did not speak nor stir — B.A.Williams > or of the correlatives not … or < such quotations do not discredit or impair the sincerity — William Hard > < not folded bud, or wave that laps a shore — Phyllis McGinley > • - not a little II. III. < nobody not a professor has the remotest idea — W.L.Sullivan > IV. or nott dialect England V. or nott dialect England |
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