| 单词 | a shade better |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa shade better b. transferred and figurative. A minutely differentiated degree or variety (of a quality, a condition, meaning, etc.). Often adverbial with comparatives, a shade better, shadeless, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > minute difference in degree, etc. or shade shade1749 shading1775 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas III. ix. ii. 192 He put, to use the expression, different shades of consideration in the civilities he shewed. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xviii. 89 Among the different branches of the human race, the Sarmatians form a very remarkable shade. 1820 J. W. Croker Diary 2 Feb. The King is a shade better. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table ix. 245 I drew my chair a shade nearer to her. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 13 Men of all shades of opinion..combined against him. < as lemmas |
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