单词 | more than one |
释义 | > as lemmasmore than one b. more than one: several people, a number (out of those mentioned). Usually with singular agreement. [Compare French plus d'un, in similar pronominal use with singular agreement from mid 19th cent. or earlier.] ΚΠ 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans xxiii More than one had turned, as if to catch the meaning of his words. 1865 F. Oakeley Hist. Notes 103 More than one who took a part in the more extreme developments of the work has since been conspicuous on the rationalistic side of more recent controversies. 1899 K. Chopin Awakening xxv. 193 People turned their heads to look at her, and more than one lent an attentive ear to her utterances. 1927 Travel Nov. 53/1 Maidens came to watch the casting of the bell, since more than one had a lover in New Spain. 1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour iii. 53 Schutz..set up experimental groups whose members were incompatible in that more than one was high in dominance. more than one (a) (With an expression of number, amount, or quantity) by an amount exceeding the number or quantity specified; similarly with multiplicative numerals, as more than once (corresponding to more than one treated as a unitary expression). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > to a greater extent > in some specific respect more thanOE OE Homily: Invention of Cross (Auct. F.4.32) in M.-C. Bodden Old Eng. Finding of True Cross 83 Ic nat hit ne ne can forþan hit wæs gedon mare þonne for hundtiontigum gærum & ic eom iung & þæt ne geman. ?a1300 (a1250) Harrowing of Hell (Digby) (1907) 60 (MED) More þen xxx vinter hit is agon Þat þu hauest fonded me. c1400 (?c1308) Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 38 (MED) It is more þan twelue moneþ gon. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 196 (MED) Þe scriptur of þaim is mor þan ccclxxij yere old. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. Prol. 12 Reid agane this volume mair than twys. ?1553 Respublica (1952) i. ii. 6 And yonder he cometh me thinketh more then half madde. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xviii Sheepe, which haue very long tayles more then a foote long. 1696 J. Dryden Lucian in Prose Wks. (1800) III. 360 For this reason he calls himself more than once an Assyrian. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 85 The earthquake..overwhelmed a chain of mountains of free stone more than 300 miles long. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 48 His territories in Asia..are more than twenty-one times the size of Scotland. 1946 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Feb. 62/3 Erasmus sat to him more than once. 1990 A. Lurie Don't tell Grown-ups ii. 17 More than 150 years later it was still believed in high-minded progressive circles that fairy tales were unsuitable for children. < as lemmas |
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