单词 | fully as —— as |
释义 | > as lemmasfully as —— as b. Similarly used for emphasis with comparative expressions, as fully as —— as, etc. ΚΠ c1300 St. John Baptist (Laud) 6 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 29 Manie miracles sum oþur dude þat fulliche so holi man nas. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 87 Him nediþ his medicyn I-maad nouȝt fulliche so drie. 1531 Bp. W. Barlow Dyaloge Lutheran Faccyons sig. O4v They shall I warant you certefye of the thyrde tother sorte that are so gladde of suche laboure not fully so many as ye reken now. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xix. sig. I ii The owners hurt to be fully as muche In one of these cases as in an other. 1658 A. Jackson Annot. Job xxii. 168 in Annot. Old Test. Doctrinall Bks. I conceive that thereby is only meant his walking in an upright and perfect way, and so the second clause to be fully the same in effect with the first. 1685 J. Falconer Cryptomenysis Patefacta 4 This Transposition will appear fully as much a Stranger to the true meaning in an Epistle as any. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. i. 15 Sheeps Wooll, that is fully as hard and coarse as Hogs Hair. 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile V. 77 Teff is used by all sorts of people from the king downwards, and there are kinds of it which are esteemed fully as much as wheat. 1845 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 102 My system is fully as unitarian as your own. 1893 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Sun 25 Nov. 3/5 The Yale team has the best defense line she has ever put on the gridiron, and her offensive line is fully the equal of former years. 1903 T. J. Dwyer Guide Hardy Fruits & Ornamentals 85 The Columbian Mammoth White Asparagus..throws larger shoots and fully as many of them as the Conover's Colossal. 1974 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 18 Oct. (Focus section) 3/3 Carson exhibited a comic timing and a coquetry which was fully the equal of her beautiful voice. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) v. 134 A completely different child, possessed of a sweetness of nature fully as disarming and winsome as his brother Ardaviraf's. < as lemmas |
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