| 单词 | out of recognition |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of (also beyond) (all) recognition c. out of (also beyond) (all) recognition: to such a degree as to be unrecognizable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > remarkable or extraordinary > remarkably or extraordinarily more than ordinary1560 and a half1636 out of (also beyond) (all) recognition1824 and how!1865 like nobody's business1930 1824 New Monthly Mag. 11 32 Ten years later I saw Emily again... She was altered beyond recognition. 1865 H. James Amer. Writers liii. 606 Constant friction of the finger-tips..[means] that poor dolly is rapidly smutted out of recognition. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxviii. 488 The moment we were free of our bonds he sprang up, in his fantastic rags, with a face bruised out of all recognition, and proclaimed himself Arthur, King of Britain. 1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans 202 The world, instead of having been improved in 67 generations out of all recognition, presents, on the whole, a rather less dignified appearance. 1966 Punch 20 July 113/2 Although we've still got..many sommeliers to educate, our standards have improved beyond all recognition. 2001 C. Caballero Faure & French Musical Aesthetics (2003) iii. 107 Faure's First Quintet..revealed a voice transformed, enhanced, renewed, but not altered out of recognition. < as lemmas |
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