| 单词 | let's you and me |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslet's you and me (or you and I, or us) a. The imperative with noun or pronoun as object often serves as an auxiliary, forming the equivalent of a first or third person of the verb which follows in the infinitive. Also (U.S. colloquial) in irregular phrase let's you and me (or you and I, or us): let us (do something).The transition to this use from senses 12, 13 below, in which let may be taken either in its ordinary sense, expressing a request addressed to a person, or in its function as an auxiliary. ΚΠ c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 855 Lat vs stynte of Custance but a throwe, And speke we of the Romayn Emperour. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. ii Lete vs set vpon hym or day. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 498 Lat me ta ye state on me And bring yis land out off thyrllage. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) xcix Unto youre grace lat now ben acceptable My pure request. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 88 Latt every man say quhat he will. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. D.iij Leat vs call to memorie, the princes of times past. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song Three Children 52 O let the earth speake good of the Lorde: yee lett it prayse him. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. O1v Let it bee granted..that they are moste necessarie. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 228 If you denie to daunce, lets holde more chat. View more context for this quotation 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 84 Let there be an hole about an Inch deep, which shall serve to Prime it with Powder-dust. 1707 J. Addison Present State War in Misc. Wks. (1830) III. 222 Let her wealth be what it will. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 300 But come, I must love him! Let's find him out. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xii. 153 Let us begone from this place. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 254 Let us suppose that there is a town which is able to support two banks. 1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. 186 Let's you and I take 'em on for a set. 1950 J. D. MacDonald Brass Cupcake vi. 55 Let's you and me duck out of here. 1953 M. Dickens No More Meadows ii. 123 Let's you and me have a drink together first. 1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts i. 23 In informal let's us go too strongly stressed us is an appositive which actually repeats its principal, the us of let's. 1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 24 Mar. (1970) i. 101 Lady Bird, after this is over, let's you and me go out and have a drink. < as lemmas |
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