| 单词 | a bit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa bit e. a bit: a sum of money; money. (Cf. 8a) slang. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] sumc1300 sumc1300 so muchc1384 quantity1405 sum in gross (also in great)1421 summa?a1425 amount1450 sold1513 bankc1530 quantum1602 cash1677 amt.1744 figure1842 a bit1894 1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 214 Bill had been ‘left a bit’, and ‘a bit’ means money, all the world over. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 31/1 To have a bit on (Sporting), to have a bet on—a ‘bit’ of money on—a race. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. iii. 124 He knew that everybody had ‘a bit on’ something now-a-days. For one person who ever went racing there were twenty..who didn't, and yet knew at least enough to lose their money. a bit 5. colloq. A very small measure or degree, a jot, a whit; used adv. in the expressions a bit: a little, somewhat, rather; not a bit: not in the least, not at all; every bit: entirely, quite; a bit much: a little too much (to have to endure); something excessive or very annoying. ΚΠ 1675 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) I had not wrong'd the Gods a bit. 1719 in T. Gordon Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 174 An Aspect every Bit as terrible. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vi. 353 He loves her not a bit the worse. View more context for this quotation 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. v. ii. 231 You should ha' sent me to school a bit more. 1861 G. Trevelyan Horace at Athens vi. 54 He..can sing a lively song, and write a bit. 1866 Trollope Belton Estate I. iii. 58 The old tower out there. It isn't changed a bit! 1885 Illustr. London News 14 Feb. 184/1, I am a little bit afraid of him. 1939 ‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife iv. 70 This is a bit much, isn't it, darling?.. I don't approve of baby-snatching. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xviii. 248 This is a bit much!.. I was asleep. < as lemmas |
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