| 释义 |
unaˈdjacent, predic. a.
[un-1 7.]
Not adjacent. Usu. in colloq. and jocular phr. not unadjacent to (a particular sum, etc.): that is (reportedly) in the region of, quite close to. Cf. not a hundred miles from s.v. hundred n. and a. 2 b.
1966in Random House Dict. 1982D. Francis Banker 85 The buying price, all the papers said, was ‘not unadjacent to five million pounds’. 1986Daily Tel. 16 Aug. 15/1 His job with the Industrial Society..commands a salary not unadjacent to {pstlg}50,000. 1991Private Eye 19 July 11/1 In return for a salary not unadjacent to {pstlg}75,000, she has to write a page in the Daily Mirror once a week. |