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单词 not so
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not so
b. After adverbs and conjunctions, as how so?, not so, if so, etc.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5207 How sua, es þar na noþer king?
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke i. f. lxxiijv Not soo, but he shalbe called Ihon.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 155 This hath nothing lesse then that. Why so?
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 312 If Foxes bene so crafty, as so.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. Kv That Edmund laid a plot, To set his brother free, no more but so.
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 13 Dor. I am glad he pitcht upon Loveit. Bell. How so?
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 256 He will not die unless we abandon him, and if so, we are indeed answerable for his blood.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clare in Poems (new ed.) II. 197 ‘Nay now,..keep the secret all ye can.’ She said ‘Not so.’
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxxxv. 1 Half I hate, half love. How so? one haply requireth.
1896 G. N. Boothby Dr. Nikola i. 20 ‘I know China as well as any living Englishman.’ ‘Quite so.’
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not so
a. With adjectives or adverbs (or equivalent phrases), in negative and interrogative clauses. not so preceding an adjective, in the sense ‘not very, none too——’: see not adv., n., and int. Compounds 1c(a).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adverb] > to this or that extent
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. §3 Ne gelyfe ic no þæt hit geweorþan meahte swa endebyrdlice.
c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. viii. 10 Swa micel geleafa ne gemotte ic in Israhele.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 302 Nes castel nan swa [c1300 Otho so] strong.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7551 Þer nas prince in al þe world of so noble fame.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 54 In suilk apparaille dight, þat so riche armes was neuer sene with sight.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15509 In al this world is non silke, So noble werk, ne so riche.
1501 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 157 I was never so werie & soferd of my life, since I was borne.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 22 The great Bistorte hath long leaves like Patience, but smaller, and not so smothe or playne.
1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xvi. 121 A meaner man, of whose spiritualnesse the patient hath not so high..conceipts.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. i. 46 They neither wrestle, sing, or paint so well.
1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. vi. 38 Men were no longer shut up in so narrow boundaries.
1803–5 W. Wordsworth Solitary Reaper 13 A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 89 The Cavaliers..were by no means disposed to revive an institution so odious.
(b)c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. ix. 410 Forhwon segdes ðu Æcgbrihte swa gemeleaslice & swa wlæclice þa ðing..?c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 340 And if a man wol aske hem prively Why they been clothed so unthriftily [etc.].14.. 26 Pol. Poems xxvi. 24 I..asked who had..brought her in so drowpyng chere.1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 281 Is his worship of so litel peys?1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. ix. sig. H2 Why lookes neate Curus all so simperingly?1611 Bible (King James) John xiv. 9 Haue I bin so long time with you? View more context for this quotation1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. v. 205 The reason why I take so particular notice of this.1735 G. Berkeley Querist §215 Whence is it that Barbs and Arabs are so good horses?1780 Mirror No. 95 She..asked me, with her usual good-humour, what made me look so grave?1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans i. v What am I to say in answer to conduct so preposterous?
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