单词 | there are |
释义 | > as lemmasthere are a. Pointing to something as present to the sight or perception, chiefly in there is, there are /ˈðɛərɪz/, /ðɛəz/ /ˈðɛərə(r)/; also, calling attention to something offered (often absol.; cf. sense 7). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adverb] sensiblya1398 sensually?a1425 palpablya1456 feelably?a1475 there1535 discernably1561 sensible1590 discernibly1645 distinguishably1704 perceptivelya1774 sensitively1797 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb] > in sight in sight1377 there1535 in (full) view of1548 in prospect1555 in vista1786 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 1355 Tak, thair, ane vther [i.e. blow] vpon thy peild harne-pan. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. ii. 116 There is my hand, You shall be as a father to my youth. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. i. 24 And. Now sir, haue I met you again: ther's for you. Seb. Why there's for thee, and there, and there. View more context for this quotation 1728 A. Ramsay There's my Thumb ii There's my thumb I'll ne'er beguile thee. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lvii. 375 There's for you, dear Sir! See what a Mother can do, if she pleases! 1890 ‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe v There was that lazy Mr. Lethbridge lounging in the doorway. 1912 N.E.D. at There Mod. There is the dinner-bell; make haste. See, there comes the train. Hark! there goes the bugle. there are d. especially with the verb to be: cf. be v. 1b, 4b there is, there are, are equivalent to French il est, il y a, German es ist, es sind, es gibt, Spanish hay. (For such phrases as there is no saying = ‘it is impossible to say’, see no adj. 4.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > one cannot say [phrase] there is no saying1842 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §22 Þær is mid Estum an mægð. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7551 Þer nas prince in al þe world of so noble fame. 13.. Cast. Love (Halliw.) 275 Ther wes a kyng of myche myȝht. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5467 Waster [was there] non þat wolde hym feyne. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 147 As þouȝ þer were no lif but only in þis wrecchid world. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20123 Ne was tar noiþer seke ne fere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17787 Vp-resin he es, dute es þair nan. a1415 J. Lydgate Temple Glas 179 And some þer were..That pleined sore. 1485 W. Caxton in Malory's Morte Darthur Pref. sig. ijv Dyuers men holde oppynyon, that there was no suche Arthur. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 1 Jnto the quhilk buke thare salbe foure partis. 1531 in J. Bulloch Pynours (1887) 59 Considering thair has bene and is dalie besynes and ado with the pynouris. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 459 For many miles about ther's not a bush. View more context for this quotation a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. i. 79 Epicurus and his scholars of old..make this an argument of there being no God. 1782 W. Cowper Verses by A. Selkirk 2 My right there is none to dispute. 1823 F. Clissold Narr. Ascent Mont Blanc 22 There being no moon. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clare in Poems (new ed.) II. 197 I will know If there be any faith in man. < as lemmas |
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