单词 | as far as i can see |
释义 | > as lemmasas far as I can see P9. as far as I can see and variants: used parenthetically to indicate that a statement is based on one's own (limited) perspective; ‘to the best of my understanding’. ΚΠ 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxxv. sig. Biiiiv Where am I biggest wife? in the waste (quoth she) For all is wast in you, as far as I see. a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Cjv As farre as I see, they be Mummers. 1603 G. Johnson Disc. Trouble Eng. Church Amsterdam 85 So far as I see, this place neither alloweth the one, nor condemneth the other. 1681 J. Owen Enq. Evangelical Churches Pref. 23 Nor is it agreed, nor as far as I see, will it ever be agreed among Learned Men, when first [etc.]. 1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. vii. 320 None of the Witnesses, as far as I can see, are ad idem. 1764 J. Hippisley Ess. i. 17 To declaim upon the horrors of this trade would have been beside the question, and, as far as I can see, could have answered no good purpose. 1819 T. McCrie Life Melville I. xii. 408 So far as I can see there is no choice left, but a hard necessity is imposed on you. 1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel I. xx. 248 Sir Thomas, as far as I can see, does not require much mollifying. 1913 H. Lawson Triangles of Life 100 He was not an Englishman, as far as I could see, and not an Australian. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 22/2 Everyone's concerned with Viet Nam, as far as I can see. 2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. xii. 182 What seems to be the big problem here is that, as far as I can see, England has chosen to ethnicize its young. < as lemmas |
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