| 单词 | his enough |
| 释义 | > as lemmashis enough 2. A sufficient amount. spec. in †his enough: enough for him (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > for oneself or himself his enough1597 self-sufficiency1642 1597 R. Naunton Let. Mar. in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1976) II. 121 His temperance, which hath so qualefyed the depth of his desires as they haue found a bottome & an inough at length. 1642 W. Piers Two Serm. i. 35 Still as the world growes upon him, his desires grow upon the world, his enough changeth alwaies, every yeare, nay every day, nay every houre he thinkes upon another enough. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 176 Its his enough. 1678 O. Grew Medit. Parable of Prodigal Son xi. 115 When Esau said to Jacob, I have enough; what was his enough? the fulness of his outward condition without God. 1848 T. S. Arthur Lost Children 4/1 There had been enough of evil in his life: and there had been an enough of consequent suffering to others. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 149 There is no enough short of a little too much. 1908 Conservator Dec. 147/1 Now you know that there is no enough except in the enough of all. 1916 ‘G. Fleming’ Diplomat 144 He pretended that ‘enough’ was his rule of entertainment, but his enough was too much both to eat and to drink. 2009 R. Skidelsky Keynes: The Return of Master (2010) 144 Here Keynes comes closest to answering the question of why his ‘enough’ is not going to be ‘enough’. < as lemmas |
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