英语词汇“never the near”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

5. Nearer to one's end or purpose. Only in negative and interrogative clauses, esp. never the near. (Very common in the late 16th and early 17th cent.) In later use only English regional.

a. With personal subject.For a possible earlier isolated example of this use, not in the negative, cf. quot. eOE.

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eOE Let. to Edward the Elder (Sawyer 1445) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 31 Ða ðuhte us eallan ðe æt ðære some wæran, ðæt Helmstan wære aðe ðæs ðe near.]

c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 721 With this chanoun I dwelt haue seuen yeer, And of his science am I neuere the neer.

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 258 Ȝet am I neuere þe ner, for nouȝt I haue walkid To wyte what is dowel.

a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iii. i. f. 47 (MED) A birde..alday contynualy rennyth in a cage to seke an hole..and many hundred tymes asaieth the same place and neuer is the wiser whan he comyth a geyn, ne neuere the nete [read nere] delyuered.

1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. Kij^v Then is he neuer the nere hys purpose, but much the further from it.

a1561 G. Cavendish Metrical Visions (1980) 1382 Ffor all my conquestes, and my Royall powers..what ame I the nere?

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? vi. 54 He may call his heart out..and not the neere.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 121 If it be not under lock and key, they are never the neer.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 59 I've worked all day, and am nivver the near.

b. With non-referential pronoun as subject.

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a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. D Your early vp, pray God it be the neere.

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) sig. A4 There I kept a great house with smal cheer, but all was nere the neere.

1704 Boston News-let. 1 May 2/1 'Twas never the near for him to build his New Fortifications round his House, for they would certainly take him.

1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet IV. 93 As for staying with them there French rascals, it was never the near.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) What's the near to tell up such stuff's that?

单词	never the near
释义	> as lemmas never the near 5. Nearer to one's end or purpose. Only in negative and interrogative clauses, esp. never the near. (Very common in the late 16th and early 17th cent.) In later use only English regional. a. With personal subject.For a possible earlier isolated example of this use, not in the negative, cf. quot. eOE. ΚΠ eOE Let. to Edward the Elder (Sawyer 1445) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 31 Ða ðuhte us eallan ðe æt ðære some wæran, ðæt Helmstan wære aðe ðæs ðe near.] c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 721 With this chanoun I dwelt haue seuen yeer, And of his science am I neuere the neer. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. xi. 258 Ȝet am I neuere þe ner, for nouȝt I haue walkid To wyte what is dowel. a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iii. i. f. 47 (MED) A birde..alday contynualy rennyth in a cage to seke an hole..and many hundred tymes asaieth the same place and neuer is the wiser whan he comyth a geyn, ne neuere the nete [read nere] delyuered. 1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. Kij^v Then is he neuer the nere hys purpose, but much the further from it. a1561 G. Cavendish Metrical Visions (1980) 1382 Ffor all my conquestes, and my Royall powers..what ame I the nere? 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? vi. 54 He may call his heart out..and not the neere. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 121 If it be not under lock and key, they are never the neer. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 59 I've worked all day, and am nivver the near. b. With non-referential pronoun as subject. ΚΠ a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. D Your early vp, pray God it be the neere. a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) sig. A4 There I kept a great house with smal cheer, but all was nere the neere. 1704 Boston News-let. 1 May 2/1 'Twas never the near for him to build his New Fortifications round his House, for they would certainly take him. 1811 A. de Beauclerc Ora & Juliet IV. 93 As for staying with them there French rascals, it was never the near. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) What's the near to tell up such stuff's that? extracted from † nearadv.¹prep.¹ < as lemmas
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