| 单词 | to name a few |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto name (but) a few c. transitive. To cite as an instance or example. to name (but) a few and variants: to give only these as examples, though more could be cited. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > cite as an instance or example stir1340 cite1550 name1597 instance1622 quote1663 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 174 What comfortable houre canst thou name That euer grac't me in thy companie. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 11 I would gladly have any one name that Proposition, whose Terms or Idea's were either of them innate. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 23 I shall Name but a few of these Things; but sure they were so many. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. i. 11 Can you name a single Parliamentary aspirant who has been made to suffer? 1896 Dict. National Biogr. XLVII. 157/2 Robertson, Hume..Jeffrey, and Walter Scott were of the company, to name but the more famous. 1900 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. ‘Le Colonel Chabert’, for instance, ‘Le Curé de Tours’, ‘L'Interdiction’, ‘La Messe de l'Athée’ (to name but a few). 1925 Amer. Mercury July 344/2 It would be difficult to name a single non-migrating native who had become a national hero. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 280 The figures represented by [Corn] Dollies cover a considerable variety... We may name a few... The Horn of Plenty,..the Staffordshire Knot, [etc.]. 1981 Bon Appetit June 25/1 The festivities of June include weddings, graduations and Father's Day, to name but three. 1994 Canad. Geographic Jan. 22/2 White bears..share the island with black wolves, river otters, eagles and sitka deer, to name only a few species. < as lemmas |
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