单词 | such as |
释义 | > as lemmassuch as a. With correlative as pronoun (see as conj. 17), Middle English also as that, taking the place of Old English swelce, swá. such as = Of the kind or degree that; the kind of (person or thing) that.According to the syntax of the subordinate clause, as may be equivalent to a relative in an oblique case = of, in, with (etc.) which. ΚΠ c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxiv. §10 Be swelcum gesceaftum swelce nane sawle nabbað. 971 Blickl. Hom. 95 Ealle hie sceolan þonne arisan..on swylcum heowe swa hie ær hie sylfe gefrætwodan. c1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. D) ann. 1058 Mid swilcan weorðscipe swa nan oðer ne dyde ætforan him. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1009 Þa com him swilc wind ongean swilce nan mann ær ne gemunde. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Þe sunne schineð þer þurh, and ho nimeð al swuch hou alse ho þer on uint. a1225 Leg. Kath. 1852 Wið swuch dream..as drihtin deah to cumene. c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Of..swuch wurðschipe, as hit is to beo godes spuse. c1290 Beket 1204 in S. Eng. Leg. 141 Of swuch a frere ase ich am. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 855 Swiche werkus to swinke as oþur swainus vsen. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 433 What dauid seith of suche men as þe sauter telleth. 1480 Cov. Leet Bk. 473 Before such persones and at such places as this case shall require. 1546 S. Gardiner Detection Deuils Sophistrie 228 Christ..is..mocked..wt such toyes and termes, as the Jewes deuised not more spitefull. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. R6v When..Musidorus tooke on such shepherdish apparell..as I now weare. 1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 13 Thy growth to such perfection, as no flattery Of art can perish now. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 82 If it be true that such meat as is the most dangerously earned is the sweetest. 1815 W. Scott Let. 19 Jan. (1933) IV. 12 To finish an odd little tale within such time as will mistify the public I trust. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. ii. 259 We'll each of us give you such a thrashing as you'll remember. 1877 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest v. 65 Such a cloak for their commercial appetite as modern church-going is for modern swindling. such as ΚΠ c1340 Medit. Passion in Hampole's Wks. (1895) I. 92 Graunte me grace..euere to knouleche me for sich as I am, a sinful wrecche. c1440 Alphabet of Tales 184 He sett befor þaim suche as he had in his cell. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 51 After that he had eten suche as plesid hym he voyded the mete. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xi He that is wyse must not..take hede to his wordes but lete hym go for suche as he is. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvii. 364 Ye ar welcom..To sich as we haue. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde xxv. 41 The Indians..brought vs thither suche as the land..bringeth forth. < as lemmas |
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