| 单词 | all sorts of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasall sorts of b. With a plural noun, as all kinds of, all sorts of, etc. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. vi. 302 In alle kyndes of bestis þe femel is more febil þan þe male. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 127 She was all expert in alle maners of enchantemens & of sorceries. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 125 Alle kyndes of presoynes, of peynes of jayles and of jebbet. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxx. f. xliv Iugurth..anone prepared the greattest army that he coude of all sortes of people. 1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader sig. lvv Doth not the pope..Curse, excommunicate, & rebuke with all kindes of checkes the hyghest kinges and ruelars when he liste? 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxvi. 431 All..have made vse of..his Bookes, as of a Seminarie, a Spring-garden or Store-house of all kinds of sufficiency and learning. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 185 The Wyer must be..drawn and made sizeable and fit to make all sorts of Pins. 1713 Boston News-let. 30 Mar. 2/2 To be sold by Mr. Zabdiel Boylston, at his Apothecaries Shop in Dock-Square, Boston, viz... All sorts of Snuff, Brazil, Barcelona, Spanish, Perfum'd, or Plain. 1799 J. B. Bordley Ess. & Notes Husbandry xvi. 211 It is a rule applicable to all sorts of livestock. 1849 Southern Literary Messenger 15 626/1 Toryism, feudalism, medievalism, all manners of retrogradism and rottenness in opinion. 1900 G. Patten Rockspur Nine v. 50 Man after man came up to bat against him, but he sent in all kinds of curves, shoots, drops, and rises. 1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 18 There are all kinds of growing up and getting educated which are not academic kinds. 2011 Independent 18 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 7/1 There are all sorts of interesting ways to humiliate yourself publicly on Facebook. all sorts of b. all sorts of (things or persons), = ‘things or persons of all kinds or descriptions’. (Cf. 7c.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > variation [phrase] > all sorts of all sorts of1558 of sorts1597 in sort1756 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 33v Take of..al sortes of Mirabolanes. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft ii. x. 35 All sorts of writers..learned and vnlearned. 1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 514/1 Ilk hors laid of fische, flesche, cornis and all sortis of viveris. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 143 All sorts of things are sold in this street. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 93 All sorts of Ven'son; and of Birds the best. 1781 T. Gilbert Plan Relief Poor 6 Workhouses are generally inhabited by all Sorts of Persons. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career i. 9 They answered..to all sorts of questions in geography. 1891 H. Herman His Angel 238 I've been buying frocks and all sorts of things these days past. < as lemmas |
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