英语词汇“to be the better”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to be the better: to be profited, advantaged, or improved. In later use with for indicating the source of the profit, advantage, or improvement.In quots. OE, c1275 with impersonal copular verb and dative personal pronoun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > more or most

to be the betterOE

the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > derive benefit

to be the betterOE

profit1340

getc1390

advancec1405

gain1575

benefit1623

to have (also get, want, etc.) a run for one's money1874

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1073 Her Wyllelm kyng..mid his landfyrde ferde inn ofer þæt wæð, & he þær naht ne funde þæs þe heom þe betere wære.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2710 Wel ȝe me bi-hatet halde ȝeif ȝe wulleð. eow swal beon þe betere.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 2424 (MED) Som goodly word..Wherof thin herte was the bettre.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1363 I shal ben neuere the bettere.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 32 (MED) What were god þe bettyr?

a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) v. ii. f. 89^v (MED) Schuld thei neuere be the beter.

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3^v I thanke yee I am the better for your asking.

1619 J. Dyke Counterpoison 37 What are we the better to know our disease?

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 64 Friendship is one of those few Things which are the better for the Wearing.

1727 A. Pope et al. Peri Bathous 13 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Has had some Poetical Evacuation, and no question was much the better for it in his Health.

1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 17 You wear out only your own girths, without your horse being a bit the better for it [sc. spurring the wrong part of the horse].

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xi. 233 A man..cannot go to church twice every Sunday and preach such very good sermons..as he does, without being the better for it.

1860 Brit. Q. Rev. Jan. 73 Whether Dr. Bushnell's doctrine on this head be true or false, his book would have been greatly the better by his entirely ignoring it.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 127 I'd have been all the better for a nip.

1910 Q. Rev. Jan. 223 The best of things are the better for liberal seasonings of laughter.

1962 Amer. Q. 14 36 Even a free, meandering..brook may be the better for having..its banks cleared of overgrowing weeds.

2010 N.Y. Mag. 28 June 70 (heading) The era of the skill-challenging, danger-embracing..play zone has dawned, and the city's children are the better for it.

单词	to be the better
释义	> as lemmas to be the better P1. to be the better: to be profited, advantaged, or improved. In later use with for indicating the source of the profit, advantage, or improvement.In quots. OE, c1275 with impersonal copular verb and dative personal pronoun. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > more or most to be the betterOE the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)] > derive benefit to be the betterOE profit1340 getc1390 advancec1405 gain1575 benefit1623 to have (also get, want, etc.) a run for one's money1874 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1073 Her Wyllelm kyng..mid his landfyrde ferde inn ofer þæt wæð, & he þær naht ne funde þæs þe heom þe betere wære. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2710 Wel ȝe me bi-hatet halde ȝeif ȝe wulleð. eow swal beon þe betere. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 2424 (MED) Som goodly word..Wherof thin herte was the bettre. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1363 I shal ben neuere the bettere. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 32 (MED) What were god þe bettyr? a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) v. ii. f. 89^v (MED) Schuld thei neuere be the beter. 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. I3^v I thanke yee I am the better for your asking. 1619 J. Dyke Counterpoison 37 What are we the better to know our disease? 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 64 Friendship is one of those few Things which are the better for the Wearing. 1727 A. Pope et al. Peri Bathous 13 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Has had some Poetical Evacuation, and no question was much the better for it in his Health. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 17 You wear out only your own girths, without your horse being a bit the better for it [sc. spurring the wrong part of the horse]. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xi. 233 A man..cannot go to church twice every Sunday and preach such very good sermons..as he does, without being the better for it. 1860 Brit. Q. Rev. Jan. 73 Whether Dr. Bushnell's doctrine on this head be true or false, his book would have been greatly the better by his entirely ignoring it. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 127 I'd have been all the better for a nip. 1910 Q. Rev. Jan. 223 The best of things are the better for liberal seasonings of laughter. 1962 Amer. Q. 14 36 Even a free, meandering..brook may be the better for having..its banks cleared of overgrowing weeds. 2010 N.Y. Mag. 28 June 70 (heading) The era of the skill-challenging, danger-embracing..play zone has dawned, and the city's children are the better for it. extracted from betteradj.n.¹adv. < as lemmas
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