英语词汇“strings-attached”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) figurative (originally U.S.). A limitation, condition, or restriction attached to something. Frequently in no strings attached (cf. no strings n. and adj.); also (with hyphen) as adjectival phrase; hence strings-attached adj. (rare).

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > instance of

conditionc1380

protestationc1390

butc1405

restrictiona1450

limitationc1475

if1532

conditionary1678

reservation1719

whereas1795

yes but1870

string1888

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > without restraint [phrase] > without restriction or limit

without reserve1658

the sky's the limit1908

(with) no holds barred1942

no strings attached1951

1888 in Dict. Amer. (1951) ii. 1665/1 Bob Ingersoll says there is a string to it.

1905 N.Y. Evening Post 11 Aug. 6 The members of the committee have seen the folly of an investigation with a string tied to it.

1930 Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 19 Dec. 4/2 All the propositions with a string to them remind us of the..First of April joke.

1948 G. E. Kirk Short Hist. Middle East viii. 242 The masses are accustomed to poverty and will listen to their own political leaders rather than to foreigners who offer them opulence with a political ‘string’ attached.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 90/1 It has for its elements..imagination with no strings attached.

1953 S. Plath Johnny Panic & Bible of Dreams (1977) ii. 151 Would he ask her out..just for herself, no strings attached?

1960 Washington Post 16 Nov. a16/2 Much has been said about the desirability of aid without strings, and a strong case can be made for this in some areas where the need is economic. Certainly any strings ought to be obvious.

1969 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 1/1 The Government is to give a new £7 million loan to Upper Clyde Shipbuilders... The new loan would not carry any ‘strings’.

1971 Nature 16 Apr. 420/2 A ‘substantial’ effort will be made in the category called l'aide au développement, a strings-attached arrangement whereby state loans proffered for industrial development must be repaid if the project proves successful and profitable.

1976 Women's Rep. Sept.–Oct. 2/1 The feminist-run clinics in Australia..who persuaded the government to fund them (no strings attached).

1980 Forest Products News (Wellington, N.Z.) XVII. i. 2/2 As a gesture of goodwill, NZFP has given ‘no-strings-attached’ aid to an experimental forestry venture in Northland.

1981 J. B. Hilton Playground of Death v. 58 I could aspire to be his assistant editor... He was very proud of the Examiner's freedom from strings.

单词	strings-attached
释义	> as lemmas strings-attached (b) figurative (originally U.S.). A limitation, condition, or restriction attached to something. Frequently in no strings attached (cf. no strings n. and adj.); also (with hyphen) as adjectival phrase; hence strings-attached adj. (rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > instance of conditionc1380 protestationc1390 butc1405 restrictiona1450 limitationc1475 if1532 conditionary1678 reservation1719 whereas1795 yes but1870 string1888 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > without restraint [phrase] > without restriction or limit without reserve1658 the sky's the limit1908 (with) no holds barred1942 no strings attached1951 1888 in Dict. Amer. (1951) ii. 1665/1 Bob Ingersoll says there is a string to it. 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 11 Aug. 6 The members of the committee have seen the folly of an investigation with a string tied to it. 1930 Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 19 Dec. 4/2 All the propositions with a string to them remind us of the..First of April joke. 1948 G. E. Kirk Short Hist. Middle East viii. 242 The masses are accustomed to poverty and will listen to their own political leaders rather than to foreigners who offer them opulence with a political ‘string’ attached. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 90/1 It has for its elements..imagination with no strings attached. 1953 S. Plath Johnny Panic & Bible of Dreams (1977) ii. 151 Would he ask her out..just for herself, no strings attached? 1960 Washington Post 16 Nov. a16/2 Much has been said about the desirability of aid without strings, and a strong case can be made for this in some areas where the need is economic. Certainly any strings ought to be obvious. 1969 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 1/1 The Government is to give a new £7 million loan to Upper Clyde Shipbuilders... The new loan would not carry any ‘strings’. 1971 Nature 16 Apr. 420/2 A ‘substantial’ effort will be made in the category called l'aide au développement, a strings-attached arrangement whereby state loans proffered for industrial development must be repaid if the project proves successful and profitable. 1976 Women's Rep. Sept.–Oct. 2/1 The feminist-run clinics in Australia..who persuaded the government to fund them (no strings attached). 1980 Forest Products News (Wellington, N.Z.) XVII. i. 2/2 As a gesture of goodwill, NZFP has given ‘no-strings-attached’ aid to an experimental forestry venture in Northland. 1981 J. B. Hilton Playground of Death v. 58 I could aspire to be his assistant editor... He was very proud of the Examiner's freedom from strings. extracted from stringn. < as lemmas
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