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单词 a great deal
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a great deal
a. A quantity, an amount; qualified as good, great, vast, or the like; formerly, also, as poor, small, little, etc. a great deal: a large part, portion, allowance, or amount (of anything), very much. a good deal: a considerable amount. Cf. lot n. (in a great lot, good lot, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase]
a great dealc1000
much dealc1225
on highc1400
little1483
good and proper1508
not smally1548
a deal1756
in a big way1840
more than somewhat1930
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount
felec825
muchc1230
good wone1297
plentyc1300
bushelc1374
sight1390
mickle-whata1393
forcea1400
manynessa1400
multitudea1400
packc1400
a good dealc1430
greata1450
sackful1484
power1489
horseloadc1500
mile1508
lump1523
a deal?1532
peckc1535
heapa1547
mass1566
mass1569
gallon1575
armful1579
cart-load1587
mickle1599
bushelful1600–12
a load1609
wreck1612
parisha1616
herd1618
fair share1650
heapa1661
muchness1674
reams1681
hantle1693
mort1694
doll?1719
lift1755
acre1759
beaucoup1760
ton1770
boxload1795
boatload1807
lot1811
dollop1819
swag1819
faggald1824
screed1826
Niagara1828
wad1828
lashings1829
butt1831
slew1839
ocean1840
any amount (of)1848
rake1851
slather1857
horde1860
torrent1864
sheaf1865
oodlesa1867
dead load1869
scad1869
stack1870
jorum1872
a heap sight1874
firlot1883
oodlings1886
chunka1889
whips1888
God's quantity1895
streetful1901
bag1917
fid1920
fleetful1923
mob1927
bucketload1930
pisspot1944
shitload1954
megaton1957
mob-o-ton1975
gazillion1978
buttload1988
shit ton1991
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 202 Micel dæl bewylledes wæteres on huniges godum dæle.
c1230 Hali Meid. 29 Ha..ȝisceð þah after muchele deale mare.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13493 Hai þar was a mikel dele.
a1400–50 Alexander 3703 Coupis..þai fande bot a fewe dele forged of siluir.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 15 Safroun, & a gode dele Salt.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rii/2 A lyttle Deale, parum.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 592 But one halfepeniworth of bread to this intollerable deale of sack? View more context for this quotation
1610 Bible (Douay) II. 2 Macc. iii. 6 The treasurie at Ierusalem was ful of innumerable deale of money.
1621 J. Mayer Eng. Catechisme 207 Where ignorance preuaileth, there can be but a poore deale of loue.
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 57 There being so vast a deal of room, that 40,000 people may shelter themselves in it.
1685 H. More Cursory Refl. Pref. sig. A2v, To make such a Tragical deal ado about it.
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 223 A great Deal of Lead.
1771 B. Franklin Autobiogr. in Wks. (1840) I. 6 He was also a good deal of a politician.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 183 A most violent hurricane, which did an incredible deal of damage.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 100 There is a great deal of truth in what you say.
1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) vi. 102 A good deal of rain having fallen.
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a great deal
6. Connected with the notion of ‘amount’ or ‘extent’: a great deal, to a great extent or degree, greatly, very much; a good deal, to a considerable extent or degree, considerably; a vast deal, vastly; †much deal, etc.
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1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 3 To lat down ane grete dele thair hie sailis.
c1572 W. Forrest Theophilus 169 in Anglia (1884) 7 85 The iuste prayer much deale for to prevayle.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 200 I..bled..a great deal.
1845 T. Hood Last Man xxvii The beggar man grumbled a weary deal.
1887 G. A. Sala in Illustr. London News 19 Mar. I had travelled a good deal in earthquaking lands.
b. as adjuncts of adjectives or adverbs in the comparative or superlative, or their equivalents.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark x. f. lxv He cryed the moore a greate deale.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xiii. 713 Wilde Peares..do drie and stop a great deale more then the others.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 88 b The kitchin was a greate deale too little.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §160 To have them [letters] a pretty deal bigger than he should ordinarily write.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. vi. 28 You are a great deal too apt..to like people in general. View more context for this quotation
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 48 You take a great deal too much upon yourself.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 463 At a point a good deal lower than that at which they rose.
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