| 单词 | one or two |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone or two —— a. one or two ——: a very few, a small number of. Also with ellipsis of contextually implied noun. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [adjective] > small in number one or two ——a1400 threea1535 two or three1557 two-three1557 two1661 precious few1839 a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 6080 Ȝyf an husbond chyldryn haue, One or two, mayden or knaue. 1526 Grete Herball xxxv. sig. Ciiv/2 Make pylles with iuce of rue and sawge and yf nede be dyssolue one or two in iuce of rue. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xvii. 12 I haue gathered up one or two stickes. 1691 J. Ray Let. to Aubrey 22 Oct. in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. 159 You are not ignorant how Mr. Boyle hath been κωμωδουμενος for some new-coyned words, such as ignore and opine... I'll name you one or two [i.e. in Aubrey's MS. Hist. of Wilts], to apricate, suscepted, vesicate, continently put as opposite to incontinently. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxxix. 223 For the sake of better managing one of two Executorships. 1802 R. Canning in Earl Malmesbury's Diaries & Corr. (1844) IV. 117 I will..send you..one or two trifling alterations more, and will then state to you the statable reasons for this last change. 1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings II. xviii. 43 On one or two points the writer was not wholly at one with him. 1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes xiii. 246 The ball was always turning, and one or two deliveries kicked up rather awkwardly. 1963 Times 24 Jan. 6/2 It was not enough to put one or two council houses near the slag heaps. 1990 Public Relations Jrnl. May 5/2 I've been in the habit of clipping one or two articles from each issue for topical files. 2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 11 Mar. (Sport section) 6/6 As long as the team are playing well, I will get chances to score. If you are lucky you stick one or two away. < as lemmas |
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