英语词汇“ifs, ands, or buts”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. An instance of the word ‘and’. Originally and chiefly in ifs and (also or) ands: expressions of condition or doubt. Similarly ifs, ands, or (also and) buts.Originally in sense A. 13, but now probably mostly understood as the ordinary sense of the word.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > expression of

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c1175 Names of Letters in N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon (1957) 337 Anglicę litterę Ƿ wen, Ð ðet, Þ þorn, 7 ⁊ and.]

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/2 What quod the protectour thou seruest me I wene w^t iffes & with andes.

1613 N. Breton Answer in Vncasing Machiuils Instr. G With ifs and ands he begins to say.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vii. §10. 395 Whence without all Ifs and Ands, that appeares sufficiently which I said in the beginning.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 723 Absolutely and without any Ifs and Ands.

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1683) II. iv. 444 The Grants of Grace run without Ifs, and_Ands, and Buts.

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 137 An absolute approbation..without any cautions, qualifications, ifs or ands.

1748 E. Parkman Diary 30 May (1974) 177/1 I was ready to throw up the Precincts Votes without any Ifs and and's.

1823 tr. J. L. H. Campan Memoirs Marie Antoinette (ed. 2) I. x. 259 Five different requests—such an office, or such a mark of distinction, or..and so on... The ors were changed into ands.

1922 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 102 109/2 Without any ifs, ands or buts.

1935 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) v. 43 There are no ifs and ands. If I live with a man I know so. There's no parti pris.

1995 Denver Post 27 Aug. a22/3 As with all these proposals, ifs, ands and buts abound.

2000 High Country News 19 June 3/4 It will be a national priority to preserve these roadless areas as they are, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

单词	ifs, ands, or buts
释义	> as lemmas ifs, ands, or (also and) buts 1. An instance of the word ‘and’. Originally and chiefly in ifs and (also or) ands: expressions of condition or doubt. Similarly ifs, ands, or (also and) buts.Originally in sense A. 13, but now probably mostly understood as the ordinary sense of the word. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > expression of if1532 anda1535 humph1815 c1175 Names of Letters in N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon (1957) 337 Anglicę litterę Ƿ wen, Ð ðet, Þ þorn, 7 ⁊ and.] a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/2 What quod the protectour thou seruest me I wene w^t iffes & with andes. 1613 N. Breton Answer in Vncasing Machiuils Instr. G With ifs and ands he begins to say. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vii. §10. 395 Whence without all Ifs and Ands, that appeares sufficiently which I said in the beginning. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 723 Absolutely and without any Ifs and Ands. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1683) II. iv. 444 The Grants of Grace run without Ifs, and_Ands, and Buts. 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 137 An absolute approbation..without any cautions, qualifications, ifs or ands. 1748 E. Parkman Diary 30 May (1974) 177/1 I was ready to throw up the Precincts Votes without any Ifs and and's. 1823 tr. J. L. H. Campan Memoirs Marie Antoinette (ed. 2) I. x. 259 Five different requests—such an office, or such a mark of distinction, or..and so on... The ors were changed into ands. 1922 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 102 109/2 Without any ifs, ands or buts. 1935 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) v. 43 There are no ifs and ands. If I live with a man I know so. There's no parti pris. 1995 Denver Post 27 Aug. a22/3 As with all these proposals, ifs, ands and buts abound. 2000 High Country News 19 June 3/4 It will be a national priority to preserve these roadless areas as they are, no ifs, ands or buts about it. extracted from andconj.¹adv.n.¹ < as lemmas
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