英语词汇“worse and worse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. worse and worse: worse in an increasing degree, progressively worse.

(a) In sense A. 2, with reference to harmfulness, unpleasantness, severity, etc.

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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxxiii. 382 Ne ða tobeotiendan frecernesse ðam eagum mannes hond gehælan mihte ac a dæghwæmlice wæs wyrse & wyrse.

OE Wulfstan Deeds of Antichrist (Corpus Cambr.) 132 Þæt is gesyne, þy is ðeos woruld fram dæge to dæge wyrse & wyrse.

?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Ðat lastede þa xix wintre wile Stephne was king, & æure it was uuerse & uuerse.

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 132 Whyles he doth rule, All is warse and warse.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. ii^v All thynges.., aswell in the realme as without, waxed worsse and worsse.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 98 Worse and worse, she will not come: Oh vilde, intollerable, not to be indur'd.

1682 London Gaz. No. 1760/2 The affairs of Hungary grow worse and worse.

1720 Lady B. Germaine Let. 17 Oct. in Countess of Suffolk Lett. (1824) I. 73 Worse and worse here every day—no soul left that we know but Lady Kit and Mrs. Coke.

1733 A. Pope Impertinent 10 So when you plague a Fool, 'tis still the Curse, You only make the Matter worse and worse.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iii. 33 I have been patient, but it's growing worse and worse; flesh and blood can't bear it any longer.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv. 56 ‘This is worse and worse,’ said Lady Gethin, gravely.

1932 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Provinc. Lady goes Further (1998) 155 Weather gets worse and worse, Shipping Forecast reduces us all to despair..and gale rises hourly.

1971 L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 84 Their albums just got worse and worse.

2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 169 Everything seems to be conspiring to put me in a worse and worse mood.

(b) In sense A. 4, with reference to physical or mental condition.

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a1450 Ministry & Passion of Christ (St. John's Cambr.) (1984) l. 670 (MED) In lechis sche had ispended þat hire lefte no good, & euere sche was wers & wers.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 11 Saturne thus felyng hym in grete sorow & trowble and alwey wors and wors as a fore is sayd.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxix. 279 The kynge..lay sore sicke..and euery daye he enpayred worse and worse.

?1553 Respublica (1952) iv. iii. 35 Truelie I fele miselfe hitherto wurse and wurse.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 116 I pray you speake not: he growes worse & worse .

1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1976) IX. 180 My eyes, which are daily worse and worse, that I dare not write or read almost anything.

1701 tr. N. Andry Acct. Breeding Worms in Human Bodies iv. 104 They removed him into the Country, where he grew worse and worse.

1782 in D. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session (1826) II. 908 The testator was long ill: he..grew worse and worse, but never reconvalesced.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 41 My uncle grew worse and worse, the more dosing and nursing he underwent.

1893 J. S. Balfour Story of Liberator Crash xiv. 34/1 By degrees she became worse and worse mentally, until at last I was compelled by the advice of the doctors..to allow her to be placed—oh!—in a lunatic asylum!!

1925 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Feb. 344/2 These are most distressing cases, which, if left alone, tend to get worse and worse and finally die of tuberculosis, amyloid disease, or bronchopneumonia.

1985 T. C. Hindmarsh Cracked Wheat for Christmas iv. 44 She caught a bad cold. She got worse and worse until she had to go to bed and couldn't get back up.

2004 A. Brown tr. J. L. Crétien Ark of Speech ii. 31 He cannot hear very well, and indeed his hearing is getting worse and worse.

(c) In sense A. 1, with reference to immorality, wickedness, cruelty, etc.

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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > increasingly worse [phrase]

worse and worsec1450

c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 255 (MED) Þe liff of þe Cristen pepull haþ ben euer wars and wars, as well in þe spirituallte as in þe temperalte.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. iii. [26] He that is frowarde of hert wyll euer be the worse and worse.

1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. vii. f. 66^v That the wicked and wilfull folke..should..waxe worse and worse.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. Proem sig. M4 The world..Being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse .

1622 W. Whately Gods Husbandry (new ed.) ii. xvi. 136 We shall grow worse and worse, euen from ought to nought, as the Prouerbe speaketh.

1650 J. Burroughs et al. Expos. 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th Chapters Hosea (vi. 1) 637 So saith God, so many waies and means have I used to do them good,..and nothing doth them good, but they grow worse and worse, then the sinnes of Ephraim did break forth, the sins of the Court they work out: and the sins of Samaria..shew themselves.

1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 12 They always grow worse and worse, till they grow meer Reprobates.

1805 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1162 W. Taylor grows worse and worse. As to his political dogmata, concerning Egypt &c, God forgive him!

1887 T. K. Cheyne Job & Solomon 202 Bad as things are, he does not believe that the world is getting worse and worse..he is a ‘malist’.

1914 J. S. Hartzler in D. Kauffman Bible Doctr. ii. iii. 178 This does not mean necessarily that conditions have been getting ‘worse and worse’ from Adam's time to the present, and that there is no good in the world.

1991 J. Marsden Lett. from Inside (2001) 120 Anyhow, I got worse and worse. I ended up known as the local slut, head-banger, low-life, all of which didn't bother me.

2013 P. B. Barry Evil & Moral Psychol. i. 17 As this elevator descends, it moves past levels populated by worse and worse sorts of people until it arrives at the basement, home to the morally worst sort of people.

a. worse and worse: increasingly worse (in senses 1 and 2), more and more badly. Cf. worse adj. and n. Phrases 1a(a).

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?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 33^v Her sone tytan gouerned hym so malicyously and allewey worse and worse [Fr. de pis en pis] with out ony compassion on the peple.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 115^v (MED) Wheþir it [sc. cancer] be kutt al aweye or y-left stille, it bringiþ wo & sorowe to þe pacient by his lyue, and so wors and wors til he be deed.

1487 W. Cely Let. 12 Sept. in Cely Lett. (1975) 233 The exchaunge goyth euer the lenger warsse and wars.

1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xl. sig. Bv^v How doth your eie sight? worse & worse (said he).

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 83 It mends like soure ale in summer worse and worse.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 484 He did nothing but deturpate, and so continued worse and worse till his death.

1725 G. Sewell Wks. Shakespear VII. 331 I can by no means think that Shakespear wrote worse and worse.

1839 G. Combe Lect. Phrenology 329 The air became vitiated more and more, and the blood worse and worse aërated.

1982 J. C. Holt How Children Fail (ed. 2) 230 She could not concentrate on doing it, and hence did it worse and worse.

1999 K. A. Woodrow-Lafield in D. W. Haines & K. E. Rosenblum Illegal Immigration in Amer. ii. 15 The lesser educated are faring worse and worse over time.

2006 G. Downs Spit Baths 171 At the basketball games, she behaved worse and worse.

单词	worse and worse
释义	> as lemmas worse and worse a. worse and worse: worse in an increasing degree, progressively worse. (a) In sense A. 2, with reference to harmfulness, unpleasantness, severity, etc. ΚΠ eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxxiii. 382 Ne ða tobeotiendan frecernesse ðam eagum mannes hond gehælan mihte ac a dæghwæmlice wæs wyrse & wyrse. OE Wulfstan Deeds of Antichrist (Corpus Cambr.) 132 Þæt is gesyne, þy is ðeos woruld fram dæge to dæge wyrse & wyrse. ?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Ðat lastede þa xix wintre wile Stephne was king, & æure it was uuerse & uuerse. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 132 Whyles he doth rule, All is warse and warse. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. ii^v All thynges.., aswell in the realme as without, waxed worsse and worsse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 98 Worse and worse, she will not come: Oh vilde, intollerable, not to be indur'd. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1760/2 The affairs of Hungary grow worse and worse. 1720 Lady B. Germaine Let. 17 Oct. in Countess of Suffolk Lett. (1824) I. 73 Worse and worse here every day—no soul left that we know but Lady Kit and Mrs. Coke. 1733 A. Pope Impertinent 10 So when you plague a Fool, 'tis still the Curse, You only make the Matter worse and worse. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iii. 33 I have been patient, but it's growing worse and worse; flesh and blood can't bear it any longer. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv. 56 ‘This is worse and worse,’ said Lady Gethin, gravely. 1932 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Provinc. Lady goes Further (1998) 155 Weather gets worse and worse, Shipping Forecast reduces us all to despair..and gale rises hourly. 1971 L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 84 Their albums just got worse and worse. 2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 169 Everything seems to be conspiring to put me in a worse and worse mood. (b) In sense A. 4, with reference to physical or mental condition. ΚΠ a1450 Ministry & Passion of Christ (St. John's Cambr.) (1984) l. 670 (MED) In lechis sche had ispended þat hire lefte no good, & euere sche was wers & wers. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 11 Saturne thus felyng hym in grete sorow & trowble and alwey wors and wors as a fore is sayd. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxix. 279 The kynge..lay sore sicke..and euery daye he enpayred worse and worse. ?1553 Respublica (1952) iv. iii. 35 Truelie I fele miselfe hitherto wurse and wurse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 116 I pray you speake not: he growes worse & worse . View more context for this quotation 1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1976) IX. 180 My eyes, which are daily worse and worse, that I dare not write or read almost anything. 1701 tr. N. Andry Acct. Breeding Worms in Human Bodies iv. 104 They removed him into the Country, where he grew worse and worse. 1782 in D. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session (1826) II. 908 The testator was long ill: he..grew worse and worse, but never reconvalesced. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 41 My uncle grew worse and worse, the more dosing and nursing he underwent. 1893 J. S. Balfour Story of Liberator Crash xiv. 34/1 By degrees she became worse and worse mentally, until at last I was compelled by the advice of the doctors..to allow her to be placed—oh!—in a lunatic asylum!! 1925 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Feb. 344/2 These are most distressing cases, which, if left alone, tend to get worse and worse and finally die of tuberculosis, amyloid disease, or bronchopneumonia. 1985 T. C. Hindmarsh Cracked Wheat for Christmas iv. 44 She caught a bad cold. She got worse and worse until she had to go to bed and couldn't get back up. 2004 A. Brown tr. J. L. Crétien Ark of Speech ii. 31 He cannot hear very well, and indeed his hearing is getting worse and worse. (c) In sense A. 1, with reference to immorality, wickedness, cruelty, etc. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > increasingly worse [phrase] worse and worsec1450 c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 255 (MED) Þe liff of þe Cristen pepull haþ ben euer wars and wars, as well in þe spirituallte as in þe temperalte. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. iii. [26] He that is frowarde of hert wyll euer be the worse and worse. 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. vii. f. 66^v That the wicked and wilfull folke..should..waxe worse and worse. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. Proem sig. M4 The world..Being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse . View more context for this quotation 1622 W. Whately Gods Husbandry (new ed.) ii. xvi. 136 We shall grow worse and worse, euen from ought to nought, as the Prouerbe speaketh. 1650 J. Burroughs et al. Expos. 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th Chapters Hosea (vi. 1) 637 So saith God, so many waies and means have I used to do them good,..and nothing doth them good, but they grow worse and worse, then the sinnes of Ephraim did break forth, the sins of the Court they work out: and the sins of Samaria..shew themselves. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. i. 12 They always grow worse and worse, till they grow meer Reprobates. 1805 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1162 W. Taylor grows worse and worse. As to his political dogmata, concerning Egypt &c, God forgive him! 1887 T. K. Cheyne Job & Solomon 202 Bad as things are, he does not believe that the world is getting worse and worse..he is a ‘malist’. 1914 J. S. Hartzler in D. Kauffman Bible Doctr. ii. iii. 178 This does not mean necessarily that conditions have been getting ‘worse and worse’ from Adam's time to the present, and that there is no good in the world. 1991 J. Marsden Lett. from Inside (2001) 120 Anyhow, I got worse and worse. I ended up known as the local slut, head-banger, low-life, all of which didn't bother me. 2013 P. B. Barry Evil & Moral Psychol. i. 17 As this elevator descends, it moves past levels populated by worse and worse sorts of people until it arrives at the basement, home to the morally worst sort of people. extracted from worseadj.n. worse and worse a. worse and worse: increasingly worse (in senses 1 and 2), more and more badly. Cf. worse adj. and n. Phrases 1a(a). ΚΠ ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 33^v Her sone tytan gouerned hym so malicyously and allewey worse and worse [Fr. de pis en pis] with out ony compassion on the peple. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 115^v (MED) Wheþir it [sc. cancer] be kutt al aweye or y-left stille, it bringiþ wo & sorowe to þe pacient by his lyue, and so wors and wors til he be deed. 1487 W. Cely Let. 12 Sept. in Cely Lett. (1975) 233 The exchaunge goyth euer the lenger warsse and wars. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xl. sig. Bv^v How doth your eie sight? worse & worse (said he). 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 83 It mends like soure ale in summer worse and worse. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 484 He did nothing but deturpate, and so continued worse and worse till his death. 1725 G. Sewell Wks. Shakespear VII. 331 I can by no means think that Shakespear wrote worse and worse. 1839 G. Combe Lect. Phrenology 329 The air became vitiated more and more, and the blood worse and worse aërated. 1982 J. C. Holt How Children Fail (ed. 2) 230 She could not concentrate on doing it, and hence did it worse and worse. 1999 K. A. Woodrow-Lafield in D. W. Haines & K. E. Rosenblum Illegal Immigration in Amer. ii. 15 The lesser educated are faring worse and worse over time. 2006 G. Downs Spit Baths 171 At the basketball games, she behaved worse and worse. extracted from worseadv. < as lemmas
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