| 单词 | a…or two |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa…or two a. a…or two: an indefinite small number of (the things denoted by the noun); one or two of…; a few… (For one or two see one adj., n., and pron. Phrases 1a.)The whole phrase may take the possessive inflection, as a year or two's experience = the experience of a year or two. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun] > a small number of some fewOE puckleOE a litec1290 couple1365 a…or twoa1400 handfulc1443 a wheen (of)1487 and odd1548 sprinkling1561 pair1611 scattering1628 sprinkle1754 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4342 Spek wit me a word or tua. 1543 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 267 A moneth or Towe before the said Faire. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1419/1 After a daie or twooes tariance. 1615–16 in J. C. Jeaffreson Middlesex Co. Rec. (1886) II. 113 To answere the causing of a tumult.., a poore man or two being much hurt. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 88 An hour or two's laughing with my daughter. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 413 The garden, where a vine or two and some of the finer sorts of fruit were trained. < as lemmas |
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