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单词 to let alone
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to let alone
18. to let alone (In Old English also lǽtan án, Middle English †let one.)
a. To leave (a person) in solitude. Obsolete.
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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 525 Þe leches gon, & lete Gij one, Þat makeþ wel michel mone.
a1400–50 Alexander 1828 Þen lete þe lord þam allane & went till his fest.
b. To abstain from interfering with or paying attention to (a person or thing), abstain from doing (an action). to let well alone: see well adj. and n.3 Phrases 3.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > abstain from interfering with
to let alonec897
leaveOE
to let bec1000
to let bec1175
to let (a person or thing) yworth?c1225
to let (something) standa1400
to let dwella1500
to leave to oneself (also itself)?1531
let1818
to let a thing bide1866
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxiii. 226 Læt ðonne an ðæt gefeoht swæ openlice sume hwile.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7633 Þat i him sla, it es noght god..i sal him lat al-an.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 2898 Sibbe and spoused ȝe lete an [Vesp. tak yee nan].
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 196 So he let hem allone.
a1483 Earl Rivers Let. in J. Gairdner Hist. Life Richard III (1878) App. B. 395 Take hede to the vice that Maundy makes, and loke yef the foundacion and the wallis be sufficiaunt..than lete hym alone with his worke.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) i. i. f. iij Lete me alone therfore to done that my ryght is.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 607/1 Let that alone, laissés cela.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xx. 6 Shal I go vnto Ramoth to fighte, or shal I let it alone?
1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 269 The corrupt natures of women, if they be let alone to live at libertie.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Dijv Let the Court alone.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 84 Let them alone awhile, and then open the doore. View more context for this quotation
c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) l. 827 Lat þe losels alone.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xxiii. 18 Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Job xiii. 13 Let me alone that I may speake. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 180 Let me alone for swearing. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 129 For Monsieur Maluolio, let me alone with him. View more context for this quotation
1667 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1974) VIII. 192 So home..to my accounts, and finished them..they being very great and intricate, being let alone for two months.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 57. ¶5 I would..advise all my Female Readers..to let alone all Disputes of this Nature.
1712 F. Tanner Plainest, Easiest, & Prettiest Method Short-hand 41 Which Persons may either follow or let alone, as they please.
1799 C. Lamb John Woodvil iii Let him alone. I have seen him in these lunes before.
1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. July 246 Why not avoid all this, as Napoleon might have done, by letting well alone?
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 72 Why don't you let the boy alone?
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xx. 48 Topsy soon made the household understand the propriety of letting her alone; and she was let alone accordingly.
1884 H. R. Haggard Dawn I. xix. 288 He is gentle as a lamb, if only he is let alone.
1886 Manch. Examiner 4 Nov. 5/6 It was best to let them alone to think quietly over their own position.
1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 272 A thousand times a day Rose wished she had let Frederick alone.
c. absol.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)]
to let bec1000
fastOE
withdraw1297
letc1374
forbearc1375
abstaina1382
sparec1386
respitea1393
to let alonea1400
refraina1402
supersede1449
deport1477
to hold one's handa1500
spare1508
surcease1542
detract1548
to hold back1576
hold1589
to stand by1590
to hold up1596
suspend1598
stickle1684
to hold off1861
to bottle it1988
a1400–50 Alexander 2688 Nay, leue, lat ane [Dubl. MS. lett be].
1599 George a Greene sig. E1v For his other qualities, I let alone.
1891 H. Jones Browning as Teacher ii. 45 There is given to men the largest choice to do or to let alone, at every step in life.
d. colloquial in imperative: let me (him, etc.) alone to (do so and so) = I (he, etc.) may be trusted to do, etc. Also const. for, †and in early use elliptical.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4372 Lete me allone, mi lef swete frende, anoie þe na more.
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. i. 2 Lete me alone therfore, to do that my ryght is; for nothing skilfully may lette me therof.]
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 180 Let me alone for swearing. View more context for this quotation
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i. 48 Let me alone to accuse him afterwards.
1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iv. 130Let the charwoman alone to be the first!’ cried she who had entered first.
e. The imperative let alone, or the present participle used absol., is used colloquially with the sense ‘not to mention’. (The object, whether noun, adjective, or clause, in this use follows alone.)
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > not taking account of
to let by1577
to set aside1753
to let alone1812
1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xiii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 269 I didn't hide, nor wouldn't from any man living, let alone any woman.
1816 J. Austen Let. 8 Sept. (1995) 320 We shall have no bed in the house..for Charles himself—let alone Henry.
1843 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life III. 33 Going out of town is very agreeable to me on my own account, letting alone my rejoicing for my children.
1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs 98 It..declares that honesty, let alone that it is the right thing, is also..the wisest.
1892 Guardian 20 Jan. 86/1 It is hard to get a gardener who can prune a gooseberry~bush, let alone raise a cucumber.
1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts xi. 264 The use of adjectives as complements of transitive verbs is quite limited... She isn't even pretty, let alone beautiful.
1966 Listener 20 Oct. 569/3 I cannot say that I ever felt anything like twice as old (let alone twice as wise) as my Polish friends.
1974 L. Deighton Spy Story ix. 100 He'd never be considered for a high security clearance, let alone a job in the Service.
f. let-alone n.; now only attributive in the sense of ‘laisser-aller’.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > refraining from interference
to let alone1608
unmeddlingnessa1656
non-interference1829
to let be1891
benign neglect1970
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [adjective] > from interference
unmeddling1614
uninterposing1749
unofficious1807
to let alone1826
non-interfering1840
unmeddlesome1852
hands off1860
light-handed1862
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 77 Gon. Meane you to inioy him then? Alb. The let alone lies not in your good will. View more context for this quotation
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 211 My good cousin,..by dint of practising the let-alone system..succeeded.
1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) xii. 325 The old let-alone proprietors.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1882) 351 Such a let-alone policy is eventually beneficial.
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