单词 | no end |
释义 | > as lemmasto no end b. In phrases, for or to this (that, what, which) end, to no end. Also in conjunctional phrase, to the end (that); formerly also, †to the end to (with infinitive).Now somewhat archaic or rhetorical; the ordinary phrase is in order (that or to). ΚΠ 138. Wyclif. Sel. Wks. III. 354 Han power of him to þise ende. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. v. 51 Ȝee schulle knowe and preve, to the ende that ȝee schulle not ben disceyved. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. iii. 171 The faders hadd dyuerce wyues..to thende whan one was wyth childe, they myght take another. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 64 a To thende they may al equally receive of the honnye. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C4 To the end to peruse the Greeke Authors. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 28 To which end, King Abbas, sends his Ambassadour to Constantinople. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 70 I am come forth to withstand them, and to that end will back the Lions. View more context for this quotation 1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 187 It is to no end to look what St. Austin saith. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶12 To the End that this College of Statesmen may be thoroughly practised in the Political Stile. 1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) iii. 47 Study..for what end ye were created. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. ii. 87 For this end, he summoned Luther to appear at Rome. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 170 For these ends, and for these ends alone, he wished to obtain arbitrary power. no end 21. no end: (colloquial) a vast quantity or number (of). Also (modern slang) as adverb, = ‘immensely’, ‘to any extent’; and (with of) qualifying a predicate. Cf. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > infinity of amount > an infinite amount infinityc1480 infinite1563 infinitive1595 no end1623 infinitude1667 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 143 You..made no end of promises. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late I. x. 159 Box at the opera costs no end. 1859 F. W. Farrar Eric 55 You are no end cleverer and stronger. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate III. v. 121 What comfort have I in a big house, and no end of gardens? 1871 F. C. Burnand More Happy Thoughts (ed. 2) xix. 143 He ‘makes no end of stuff’, or ‘loses no end of stuff’..on the Derby. 1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. i. 9 You will have no end of trouble. 1883 W. Besant All in Garden Fair viii Keats was no end of a fellow. 1909 R. E. Knowles Attic Guest 54 You'll have no end of fun with him. 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 769/1 ‘I really must show this to Champneys,’ thought Michael; ‘it will please him no end.’ 1955 Ess. & Stud. 8 5 A few clean strokes of Occam's razor would have helped Mr. Jackson no end. 1958 H. Babcock I don't want to shoot Elephant 8 I often walk fifteen miles a day while hunting... This puzzles my wife no end. 1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 90/2 Thomas had been impressed no end by the sight of Klüver..fixing an art-and-technology malfunction with a pair of pliers. < as lemmas |
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