单词 | and their like: |
释义 | > as lemmasand their like: (b) Implying only similarity. Now usually in and their like: = and the like at sense 2d.In early modern English also with the possessive pronoun preceded by another determiner, as any, other; cf. sense 2c. ΚΠ 1549 J. Proctor Fal of Late Arrian sig. E.iiii Ye thus depraue the wryters tofore remembred and theire lyke. 1563 N. Ling tr. T. de Bèze Sum Holy Signes, Sacrifices & Sacraments sig. C.viiiv It is not writen that she, or any other her like, hath at any time ben permitted to minister the holy sacraments. 1589 P. Ive Pract. Fortification ii. vii. 189 in tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres The north streat shalbe for Sadlers, Spurmakers, Armorers, and other their like. 1607 Bp. W. Cowper Preparatiue New Passeouer sig. Ev Hee came into the worlde to saue thee, and the like of thee. 1664 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 118 Hee would banish both the informer and all his like. a1713 A. Pitcairn Assembly (1722) ii. i. 24 How shall poor Men live, when you, and the like of you, will not give us our Money. 1771 Polit. Reg. Oct. 180 Yet I, and my like, if such exist, still remain unrewarded. 1850 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 137 This is the best school that the like of me was ever put to. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. iv. 169 I ha' never had no fratch afore, sin ever I were born, wi' any o' my like. 1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 337/1 Bailies, town councilors, railway share-holders and their like are always eager to destroy whatever is ancient or beautiful. 1938 C. Fullman tr. P. Thoene Mod. German Art 87 The art of such men as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and their like. 1995 P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents v. 105 A Spanish-language counterpart to the mainstream, commercial Euro-American ballads of Barbra Streisand, Englebert Humperdinck, and their like. < as lemmas |
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