单词 | more |
释义 | more I. 1. a. archaic < proceed in their coaches through the city for the more solemnity of it — John Evelyn > b. < the more fool you > < made for something more than a guerilla chieftain — H.E.Scudder > c. < never seemed more in years than one of her own … brood — Della Lutes > 2. < offered him more coffee > < are going to stake more billions on the future — C.F.Craig > < one more word and you'll go straight to your room > 3. < for the more part … did not talk of ephemerae — Lucien Price > 4. a. < the average high school senior does a lot more and a lot deeper thinking than his temperamental ways … suggest — Milton Lomask > < better democracy is more important than more democracy — Francis Biddle > b. < there are more ways than one to skin a cat > < the more students who need instruction … the greater the demand for my services — H.A.Burton > II. 1. a. < went to England a couple of times more — Maddy Vegtel > < what more could a speaker ask — B.F.Fairless > < the poor man's tired and old … and he hasn't much more to go — Lenard Kaufman > b. < more, Jefferson failed to anticipate the gigantic changes — J.P.Boyd > 2. a. < more as a measure of desperation than as one calculated to achieve victory — C.E.Black & E.C.Helmreich > — often used with adjectives and adverbs to form the comparative < some of her more remarkable sons and visitors — J.P.Marquand > < the more learned the writer … the harder it is — W.T.Jones > < ostensibly to guard the trains but more probably to relieve the fears of Washington — Eben Swift > b. < the plover has more a lark's habits — Alwyn Lee > < the real rates are … more like 18 per thousand — B.K.Sandwell > III. 1. < the more the merrier > < climb the more than four hundred steps — Budd Schulberg > — often used with singular verb < more than one charge of discrimination was involved — New York Times > 2. a. < it costs a little more but it's worth it > b. < what is more the gadget can be made to do lovely embossed patterns — Bertram Mycock > c. < more on this topic later — G.A.Miller > 3. obsolete < both more and less have given him the revolt — Shakespeare > 4. < water is no more than ice thawed by heat — Tobias Smollett > IV. 1. a. < more is expected of you > b. < his book is more than a guide — Geographical Journal > < there is more to prophecy than the knack of accurate forecasting — D.R.Weimer > 2. plural in construction < more were found as the search continued > V. dialect England VI. archaic variant of moor |
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