| 单词 | above all |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabove all a. above all: beyond everything; first and foremost; chiefly. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 971 (MED) Division aboven alle Is thing which makth the world to falle. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 357 Þat is—loue þi lorde god leuest aboue alle. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5750 Her hertis arn in grete distresse That folk lyue not holily But abouen all specialy Sich as prechen veynglorie. 1518 J. Colet Statuta Paulinae Scholae in J. H. Lupton Life Colet (1887) 277 The Maister shall..first se that they canne the cathechyzon... I will the Chyldren lerne ffirst aboue all the Cathechyzon in Englyshe. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 78 This aboue all, to thy owne selfe be true. 1691 T. Beverley Thousand Years' Kingdom 7 Above all I persevere, that within the Six next Summers, viz. in 97, the Kingdom of Christ shall be in its Succession. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 568 Persia contains mines of..above all, turquoise stones. 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. v. 80 Irish improvements need perpetual refreshing, and, above all, Patience. 1903 H. James Ambassadors i. i. 4 Having, above all, for the moment, nobody and nothing to consider. 1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea i. 12 Stephen was well acquainted with him as a shipmate and above all as a patient. < as lemmas |
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