单词 | much less |
释义 | > as lemmasmuch less P4. much less (also far less, still less): used to characterize a statement or suggestion as still more unacceptable or inapposite than one that has been already denied. ΘΠ the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [adverb] > statement or suggestion still more unacceptable much less1526 far less1593 lessa1637 still less1791 1526 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. sig. bijv He..concludeth that the Iewes can not be Abrahams heyres because of bloud and kynred only, and moche lesse by the workes of the lawe. 1593 J. Napier Plaine Discouery Reuelation St. Iohn To Rdr. sig. A6v I purposed not to haue set out the same suddenly, and far lesse to haue written the same also in English. 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 285 Whether the power given were lesse, equall, or greater then S. Peter's nothing is found there at all, much lesse doth the 17. Verse it self speak of power, still lesse doth it expressely belong to it. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 236 The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory. View more context for this quotation 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 332 It had no Power to help it self..much less help them. 1791 W. Cowper Let. 29 Mar. (1982) III. 491 I cannot even see Olney spire,..and still less the vicarage, without experiencing the force of those mementos. 1815 S. C. Thacher Apol. for Rational & Evangelical Christianity 24 There is nothing in the differences..which need to loosen, far less to rupture the bonds of christian charity or christian fellowship between us and our brethren. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxiii. 200 You couldn't do it when your Uncle George was living; much less when he's dead. 1861 Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 631/2 Still less can a country reporter..accurately report lectures on all subjects indiscriminately. He cannot report, because he does not understand. 1919 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 49 55 It was unsafe for an unarmed man, much less a woman, to walk from one village to another. 1960 A. MacLean Night without End viii. 127 They couldn't even have turned over a hot engine, far less one in which the crankcase, transmission, and differential were all but locked solid in lubricating oil. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 June 22/3 All the harder to speak of Anglicanism as the official—still less the established—religion of England. 2013 Time Out N.Y. 11 July 45/2 Filling in the gaps about the who, what and where, much less the why, of it all isn't on the menu. < as lemmas |
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