英语词汇“not to say”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. not to say.

(a) Used to introduce a stronger alternative or addition to something already said (suggesting that the speaker or writer might reasonably have used this stronger term).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > to a limited extent

as (also so) far as it goes1533

a kind of?1565

not to say1590

in his (also her, etc.) way1700

for what it's worth1830

kinda1834

1590 T. Rogers Miles Christianus 23 If you speake not in good sooth, it is fondlie, but if seriously you thinke as in plaine tearmes you write, it is erroniously, not to say blasphemouslie set downe.

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 50 By this reckning Moses should bee most unmosaick, that is, most illegal, not to say most unnaturall.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 198 This Parish..ever was (not to say is) one of the richest in London, which their Signlesse houses doe avouch.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 254 That there appeared a manifest inequality, not to say predetermination, that Congress should request of their constituents power to judge and determine in the cause.

1834 Times 6 June 3/6 To attempt to play the protectionist or prohibitionist in places where we had no power, appeared to him an impossibility, not to say an absurdity.

1922 Q. Oregon Hist. Soc. 21 126 The discussion in the press was bitter, not to say vitriolic. Accrimination and recrimination were hurled impartially from both sides.

2008 St. Petersburg (Russia) Times 23 May (All about Town section) p. xii Certainly ‘Crystal Skull’ couldn't have had a more eager, not to say rabid, audience anywhere in the world.

(b) colloquial. Used conversationally to dispute an assertion made by another speaker; ‘one should not say’, ‘do not say’. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xliv ‘Am not I [growing old], my dear?’ ‘No, papa, not old—not to say old’.

1905 Everybody's Mag Oct. 532/2 Not to say old, an' not to say slab-sided. Anyway, not so slab-sided as she looks from here.

单词	not to say
释义	> as lemmas not to say b. not to say. (a) Used to introduce a stronger alternative or addition to something already said (suggesting that the speaker or writer might reasonably have used this stronger term). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > to a limited extent as (also so) far as it goes1533 a kind of?1565 not to say1590 in his (also her, etc.) way1700 for what it's worth1830 kinda1834 1590 T. Rogers Miles Christianus 23 If you speake not in good sooth, it is fondlie, but if seriously you thinke as in plaine tearmes you write, it is erroniously, not to say blasphemouslie set downe. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 50 By this reckning Moses should bee most unmosaick, that is, most illegal, not to say most unnaturall. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 198 This Parish..ever was (not to say is) one of the richest in London, which their Signlesse houses doe avouch. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 254 That there appeared a manifest inequality, not to say predetermination, that Congress should request of their constituents power to judge and determine in the cause. 1834 Times 6 June 3/6 To attempt to play the protectionist or prohibitionist in places where we had no power, appeared to him an impossibility, not to say an absurdity. 1922 Q. Oregon Hist. Soc. 21 126 The discussion in the press was bitter, not to say vitriolic. Accrimination and recrimination were hurled impartially from both sides. 2008 St. Petersburg (Russia) Times 23 May (All about Town section) p. xii Certainly ‘Crystal Skull’ couldn't have had a more eager, not to say rabid, audience anywhere in the world. (b) colloquial. Used conversationally to dispute an assertion made by another speaker; ‘one should not say’, ‘do not say’. Now rare. ΚΠ 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xliv ‘Am not I [growing old], my dear?’ ‘No, papa, not old—not to say old’. 1905 Everybody's Mag Oct. 532/2 Not to say old, an' not to say slab-sided. Anyway, not so slab-sided as she looks from here. extracted from sayv.¹int. < as lemmas
随便看	mannisher mannishest mannishlaik mannishlier mannishliest mannishly mannishness mannishnesses mannitan mannite mannite sugar mannites mannitic mannitic acid mannitol mannitols mannitose mannity mannlicher mannlicher rifle manno manno- manno-octose manno-octulosonate mannoglycerate

> as lemmas