| 单词 | means of living |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeans of living a. In plural. Resources available for carrying out something, achieving some objective, etc.; spec. financial resources, esp. in relation to requirements or expenditure (sometimes more fully means of living, etc.; also means of subsistence at subsistence n. 9a). Sometimes more widely: money, wealth. man (also woman, etc.) of means n. a man or woman who has a substantial income or is wealthy. extracted from meann.3 (a) With plural or indeterminate agreement. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] coffer1377 pursec1384 possibilityc1385 moneyc1390 financec1475 abilityc1503 purse stringc1530 moyen1547 means1560 financy1600 pocket1633 fonds1669 wherewith1674 apoinctee1682 funds1700 ways and means1738 money stock1743 pecuniary1748 pecuniar1793 wherewithal1809 ante1843 pocketbook1897 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > resources facultya1382 myance?a1513 moyen1547 facility1555 means1560 resource1611 foisona1616 wherewith1674 asset1677 stock-in-tradea1806 wherewithal1809 possibles1823 bag of tricks1841 potential1941 1560 in Bannatyne Misc. (1827) I. 234 As the Kirk decays in moyane and meanes. 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 261v Bot neuirtheles the laird mon fyne For all his menis ane tun of wyne. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. A3v The cheefe enterpriser..is also readie, according as the times and meanes will affoorde, to follow and prosecute the same. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. D1v Iudging that meanes were to be spent vpon learning, and not learning to be applyed to meanes. View more context for this quotation 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 50 If hee be a man of meanes, and likely hereafter to beare charge in his Countrey..I wishe him to Historie. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 284 Two children, who lived there upon their mothers means. 1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 41 He has never sullied his honor, which, with his title, has outlived his means. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 432 Finding there readier means of subsistence, than in the other cities of the kingdom. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. ii. 33 We are great enough for our means, and have means sufficient for contentment. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. i. 8 As long as ‘The Spread Eagle’ paid her a dollar a column..Jo felt herself a woman of means. 1904 G. K. Chesterton Napoleon of Notting Hill iv. iii. 245 By spending about four thousand pounds of his private means. 1952 A. Bevan In Place of Fear v. 76 Where a patient claimed he could not afford treatment, an investigation would have to be made into his means. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 31 May 65/2 I never thought I'd be..a man of means. ΚΠ 1615 G. Wither Shepherds Hunting v, in Juvenilia (1633) 439 I waste my Meanes which of itself is slender. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 52 They're..men that get A slauish meanes out of a seruile wit. c1642 R. Harris Hezekiah's Recov. 27 All that meanes..is little enough to buy a constant Preacher bookes and physicke. < as lemmas |
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