| 单词 | either way |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseither way (c) either way: with regard to which of two given alternatives is the case; = one way or the other at Phrases 7a(b). Cf. Phrases 7a(a)(ii). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > contrariety [phrase] > one way or the other one way or the other1578 either way1593 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church xv. 349 The people may willingly forsake..the right which they had in the choice of their bishops, and the Prince either way bee lawfully possessed of the peoples interest. 1645 F. Rous Anc. Bounds 2 Conscientious Principles and practices, though perhaps erroneous, yet not injurious to publique good either way. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 31 A dire Dilemma! either way I'm sped, If Foes, they write, if Friends, they read me dead. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. ii. 411 Either way, the world must contrive to struggle on. a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 105 There are but a few years' difference between them, either way. 1941 P. Hamilton Hangover Square vii. ii. 215 To pretend, really, either that he was a complete fool or that he didn't care a damn about Netta. It wouldn't really wash, either way. 1977 Time Out 17 June 5/4 Either way, the 60 workers occupying the factory have put a spanner in the works. 2008 S. Trimble Bargaining for Eden i. 46 The past is a dream: some of us revel in it, some of us manipulate it. Either way, the truth slips away, to be firmly replaced by myth. < as lemmas |
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