单词 | asso |
释义 | > as lemmasas..so 22. as..so: extracted from soadv.conj. a. Denoting more or less exact correspondence, similarity, or proportion.Ormin has all swa summ..swa in this use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adverb] > to this or that extent thusa700 soc888 asOE so mucha1225 such ac1275 as‥soc1340 thisc1460 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > in agreement or harmony (with) [phrase] > even as, just as, or equally > in the same way that, so as‥soc1340 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > in agreement or harmony (with) [phrase] > even as, just as, or equally as‥so1611 c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 32 Als he was ay God in trinite Swa be es, and ay God sal be. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17465 Als þai war for-boght sua þai did. a1400–50 Alexander 14 For as þaire wittis ere with-in, so þer will folowis. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvii. 232 Such as the mayster was so was the seruuant. 1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique Prol. (1580) A v b As it was, so it is, and so be it still hereafter. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxiii. 7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 47. ¶7 In proportion as there are more Follies discover'd, so there is more Laughter raised. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 18 Even as thou vanishest so I shall die. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Poet xiv And as the lightning to the thunder..So was their meaning to her words. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 211 For as often as stooped the elder when he longed for the water sweet, So oft it waned. b. Denoting a simple parallelism between two different acts, concepts, etc., and sometimes approaching the sense of ‘not only..but (also)’. ΚΠ c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 2 Als ded slaas all, Swa lufe ouer-comes all. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Sacrament i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 439 As of old time God decreed.., so our loving Saviour hath ordained [etc.]. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 67 As it vald be verray lang, sa is it verray hard. 1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 79 As itt is an unsupportable wrong, soe itt inthralleth us to many other inconveniences. 1677 A. Marvell in Poems & Lett. (1971) I. 142 As he loved not to make work, so not to leave it imperfect. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iv. 36 As we rose with the sun, so we never pursued our labours after it was gone down. 1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. §6009 As the planters differ in the number of hills.., so are they no less capricious as to the manner of placing them. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 45 As in the arts, so also in politics, the new must always prevail over the old. < as lemmas |
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