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单词 any man alive
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any man alive
b. As an intensifier, esp. following a superlative or an inclusive or exclusive expression, as any man alive, etc. Cf. on earth at earth n.1 Phrases 2.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > state of being non-specific > unspecified thing(s) > anyone
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any man aliveOE
anybodyc1300
manc1384
any only ——c1475
person?a1789
OE Wulfstan 1st Sunday in Lent (Hatton 113) 233 Nis ænig man on life swa wær þæt he over ealne geares fæc him swa wel wið deofol gescyldan mæge swa swa he beðorfte.
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 269 (MED) Þeo beoð to alle oliue iliche imeane.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 2865 (MED) Ich shal yeue þe to wiue Þe fairest þing that is oliue.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 535 Ouer hard to eny man on lyue.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3171 Glad & blythe was eueryche a lyff.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 291 (MED) All the landis olyve shall obey hym vn-to.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 5062 in Wks. (1931) I To peirs the hartis Off euerilk Creature on lyue.
1653 J. Taylor Serm. for Sundaies of Year xxi. 274 The meanest person alive does not think himself fit to be despised.
1679 J. Dryden Disc. Orig. & Progr. Satire 85 First, let's behold the merriest man alive Against his careless genius vainly strive.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 167. ⁋3 I should be the most contented happy man alive.
1796 M. G. Lewis Monk III. ix. 69 Oh! I am the most unfortunate woman alive! My house is filled with ghosts and dead bodies, and the Lord knows what besides.
1857 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1858) I. xxii. 81 There is no assignable cause; man alive cannot tell a reason why.
1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago xxi. 205 Canary was the sole creature alive that could understand and feel with him.
1925 Amer. Mercury May 48/1 Gosh, I thought he was the handsomest thing alive.
1953 Life 16 Nov. 175 He ignored the warnings that no man alive could take a canoe over that drop.
2007 A. Samuels Off the Record (2008) iv. 53 The sound of his name sends chills down the spine of pretty much any woman alive.
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