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单词 true enough
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true enough
d. true enough: expressing agreement or consent, typically before the speaker goes on to explain why he or she agrees, or to make a qualifying statement.
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1737 Weddell City Farce 11 Liddy... You know these City Ladies—. Smatch. Ah, true enough—they know not how to make Allowances.
1818 tr. J. D. Wyss & J. R. Wyss Swiss Family Robinson (ed. 2) I. i. 12 If we can once get to land, you will see that they will assist us in hunting and shooting. True enough, said I; but be so good as to tell us how we are to get to land.
1924 D. Hammett in Black Mask Mar. 93/2 She gave us a fine assortment of facial expressions, true enough, but we wanted verbal information—and we got none.
1953 J. Hilton Time & Time Again i. 6 ‘I hope you like sea-food.’.. ‘Oh yes, I do, indeed.’ (..True enough, though this ‘sea-food’ set Charles thinking that he also enjoyed ‘land-food’.)
2000 ‘Bidisha’ Too Fast to Live i. 43 ‘There's blood on the cars.’... True enough, along the blackened edges of the junked cars is another, unmistakable substance.
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