单词 | one of the other |
释义 | > as lemmasone of the other a. With the (also formerly †that). The remaining one of two (in later use, also of three or more). †one of the other: of one another (obsolete).In this sense esp. contrasted with (the) one: see one pron. 10a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the remaining one of two othereOE eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 8 Sume men sæden þæt þær nære buton twegen dælas: Asia & þæt oþer Europe. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxix. 27 Hafa ðe þas ane wucan to gemæccan, & ic gyfe ðe þa oðre. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) Pref. i. 2 Gif se oðer nolde, hu wurð he elles gelæred? c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 170 Swylc bið þe mon ærest on domes dæȝe swa mucele wundorlycor and brihtræ þenne he þer scinæð for þene oðerne. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 206 Þe an neil driueð ut þen oþer. c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) 493 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 445 Þis guode wif hath i-lore hire louerd..And to leose þare-aftur ire beste best... In þat on were lure i-nouȝ, þei heo ne lore þat oþur al-so. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7017 (MED) Þe on broþer..in nede helpeþ þere þat oþer. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 1578 Þe broþer toke þe oþeres wif. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. pr. i. 100 Neither the hidere of the gold ne the delvere of the feeld ne undirstoden nat that the gold sholde han ben founde, but..he dalf there as that oothir had hid the gold. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 814 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 326 Þe vssher ledes þat on hed [of the towel] ryȝt, Þo aumener þo oþer away shalle dyȝt. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 892 (MED) The trew be folyshe, the witty be fals; That one hurt me sore & that other als. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xv When bothe the armyes were approchyng to the other. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 508v There be two maner of deathes, thone of the body, thother of the soule. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. x. 86 Wrestlers..annointed with oyle..to the intent to give or to take the lesse hold the one of the other. 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 18 With the one I recreate, with the other I confound my understanding: who can speake of eternity without a solæcisme, or thinke thereof without an ecstasie? 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 One Monarch wears an honest open Face,..That other looks like Nature in disgrace. View more context for this quotation 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature II. i. 47 There is only one objection to this system with regard to our body; which is, that tho' nothing be more agreeable than health, and more painful than sickness, yet commonly men are neither proud of the one, nor mortify'd with the other. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 77 The constitution of the one in her extreme heat, and that of the other in the extreme cold. 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 506 The inward flow Of faith..Each from the other hears. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. ix. 208 Two answers which were altogether distinct and contradictory one of the other. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. v. 57 Only one responded—old George; the other could not be found. 1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me ii. 84 They said that was the curse of being twins, but I think we were happy knowing what the other thought, feeling what the other felt. 1964 C. Isherwood Single Man 141 Neither one of us would want to keep on the animals if the other wasn't there. 1982 J. Simms Unsolicited Gift i. 30 Perhaps for a whole minute we waited in silence for the other to speak. < as lemmas |
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