| 单词 | what is the meaning of ——? |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat is the meaning of ——? c. Of an action, condition, etc.: signification; intention; cause, purpose; motive, justification. Usually in interrogative contexts, as a rhetorical question in protest at an action or behaviour (esp. in what is the meaning of ——?). Cf. mean v.1 6b. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object willeOE errand?c1225 purposec1300 endc1305 emprisec1330 intentc1340 use1340 conclusionc1374 studya1382 pointc1385 causec1386 gamea1393 term?c1400 businessc1405 finec1405 intentionc1410 object?a1425 obtent?a1475 drift1526 intend1526 respect1528 flight1530 finality?1541 stop1551 scope1559 butt?1571 bent1579 aiming point1587 pursuitc1592 aim1595 devotion1597 meaning1605 maina1610 attempt1610 design1615 purport1616 terminusa1617 intendment1635 pretence1649 ettle1790 big (also great) idea1846 objective1878 objective1882 the name of the game1910 the object of the exercise1958 thrust1968 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. B3v King. What is the meaning of this lowd report. Alex. An embas. my Lord is new ariued from spaine. 1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1707) I. 109 Why, how now, Bully Royster! What's the meaning of this Outrage in the Face of Justice? 1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iv. 51 Fac't agen;—what's the meaning of this Ill-luck to Night? 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton in Select. from Corr. M. Napier (1879) 83 What is the meaning of this Bible mania among the poetlings? 1877 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. iii. 29 What could be the meaning of so sudden and so startling a transformation? 1931 V. L. Whitechurch in Floating Admiral i. 29 What's the meaning of this early morning deputation? 1978 F. Muir in F. Muir & D. Norden Take my Word for It 92 ‘What’, she muttered between clenched teeth, ‘is the meaning of this?’ < as lemmas |
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