| 单词 | only but |
| 释义 | > as lemmasonly but P2. only but (also but only): (a) only, merely; (b) except only. Now poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > simple or unmixed [phrase] > simply, merely, or nothing but not buta1382 but only1478 in simple1548 tout court1747 tout simple1930 tout simplement1939 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > except or excepting > excepting only all saving butc1450 only but1478 1478 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 178 Paid..for the tythyngys ondely but in corn whan it was jnned in-to the barn—xxiiij li. a1525 Bk. Chess l. 416 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 94 [A king] suld bot onelye haue a quene. a1564 Q. Kennedy Breif Tracteit in 2 Eucharistic Tracts (1964) 126 To think þat it Is onely bot ane figure and taken. 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles in Wks. (1873) I. 180 Now heere all are pleas'd, Onelie but Cornelio. 1678 J. Dryden All for Love ii. 17 You but only beg'd a last farewel. 1711 Light to Blind in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 127 The first dessigne was onely but to show the rebells, that the..garrison was watchful. ?1728 R. Blair Poem Dedicated to Memory Mr. William Law 5 For if, in darker Points, we were deceiv'd, 'Twas only but observing how thou liv'd. 1806 H. H. Brackenridge Gaz. Publ. 206 And only but a natural fool, Would take in head to fight or fence; Or 'gainst the slander break his shins. 1842 W. C. Bennett My Sonnets (1843) ii They shall rank him next only but to thee In their deep, holy, hatred. 1914 W. S. Blunt Poet. Wks. 137 Fear thou nought at our hand, nay, only but fair dealing. 1975 S. Heany New Sel. Poems (1992) vi White skulls and black skulls and yellow skulls, and some with full teeth, and some haven't only but one. < as lemmas |
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