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单词 be as good as one's word
释义

good /gŭd/

adjective (compar bettˈer; superl best)
  1. Having suitable or desirable qualities
  2. Promoting health, welfare or happiness
  3. Virtuous
  4. Pious
  5. Kind
  6. Benevolent
  7. Well-behaved
  8. Not troublesome
  9. Of repute
  10. Stout-hearted, able
  11. Worthy
  12. Commendable
  13. Suitable
  14. Adequate
  15. Thorough
  16. Competent
  17. Sufficient
  18. Valid
  19. Sound
  20. Serviceable
  21. Beneficial
  22. Genuine
  23. Pleasing
  24. Enjoyable
  25. Favourable
  26. (of a shot or play in tennis, golf, etc) made accurately
  27. Ample, moderately estimated
  28. Considerable, as in a good deal, a good mind
  29. Able to be counted on
  30. Financially or commercially safe or advisable
  31. (from a range) of the better or best quality
  32. Used in patronizing address or reference, as in my good man, your good lady (ie wife)
noun
  1. That which is morally or ethically right
  2. Prosperity
  3. Welfare
  4. Advantage, temporal or spiritual
  5. Benefit
  6. Use
  7. Virtue
  8. Possessions (archaic)
  9. (usu in pl) moveable property, chattels, merchandise, freight
  10. Things bought and sold (eg machinery, clothing, foodstuffs, furniture), excluding currency, livestock, minerals, crops, land, buildings and services (business)
  11. The subject matter of a contract of sale of goods, which excludes money or choses in action (qv under chose2) (law)
  12. Tangible items produced by firms and in demand by individuals for consumption, or by firms as an input to their production processes (economics)
interjection
  1. Well
  2. Right
  3. So be it
adverb (now mainly US informal, or dialect)

Well

ORIGIN: OE gōd; Du goed, Ger gut, ON gōthr, Gothic gōths

goodˈiness noun

Weak, priggish or sanctimonious goodness

goodˈish adjective

Pretty good, of fair quality or quantity

goodˈliness noun

goodˈly adjective (goodˈlier; goodˈliest)

  1. Comely, good-looking (archaic)
  2. Fine
  3. Excellent
  4. Ample
adverb (Spenser)
  1. Graciously
  2. Excellently, kindly

goodˈlyhead or goodˈlihead noun (Spenser)

Goodness

goodˈness noun

  1. Virtue
  2. Excellence
  3. Benevolence
  4. Nourishment in food
  5. Substituted for God in certain expressions, such as for goodness sake, and as an interjection

goodˈ-o or goodˈ-oh interjection

Expressing pleasure

adverb (Aust)
  1. Well
  2. Thoroughly

goodˈy noun (pl goodˈies)

  1. (usu in pl) a delicacy or sweetmeat
  2. (usu in pl) something pleasant or desirable (usu facetious)
  3. The hero of a book, film, or any character on the side of justice and fair play, etc (informal)
  4. A goody-goody
  5. Short for goodwife (archaic)
interjection

Expressing (esp childish) pleasure

adjective

Goody-goody

good afternoon noun and interjection

A salutation on meeting or parting in the afternoon

good breeding noun

Polite manners formed by a good upbringing

good-brothˈer, -fathˈer, -mothˈer, -sisˈter, -sonˈ noun (Scot; archaic or dialect; also gude-)

A brother-in-law, father-in-law, etc

goodbyeˈ noun or interjection

Farewell, a form of address at parting (formed from God be with you)

goodˈ-cheap adjective (archaic)

Cheap (literally, good-bargain)

good-condiˈtioned adjective

In a good state

good-dameˈ noun (obsolete Scot; also gude-dameˈ /güd- or gid-/)

A grandmother

good-dayˈ noun or interjection

A traditional salutation at meeting or parting, now rather formal or archaic, but in Australia a common greeting, usu shortened to g'day

good-denˈ (obsolete; from good-e'en), good-e'enˈ (archaic), good-eˈven (archaic) or good-eveˈning noun or interjection

A salutation on meeting or parting in the evening

goodˈfaced adjective (Shakespeare)

Having a handsome face

good faith see in good faith below.

good feeling noun

  1. Friendly feeling
  2. Convivial relations

goodˈfella noun (N American informal)

A gangster, esp a member of the Mafia

goodˈfellow noun

  1. A jolly or favourite companion
  2. A reveller

goodfellˈowship noun

  1. Merry or pleasant company
  2. Conviviality

good folk plural noun

Good people

goodˈ-for-nothing adjective

Worthless, useless

noun

An idle or worthless person

Good Friday see under Friday

good grief interjection

An exclamation of surprise, dismay or exasperation

good heavens interjection

An exclamation of surprise

good humour noun

Cheerful, tolerant mood or disposition

good-huˈmoured adjective

good-huˈmouredly adverb

good-huˈmouredness noun

good-King-Henˈry noun

A goosefoot used in cooking and sometimes grown as a pot-herb

good-lackˈ interjection (obsolete)

An expression of surprise or pity (prob a variation of good Lord, under the influence of alack)

goodˈ-liking see under like2

good-lookˈer noun (informal).

good-lookˈing adjective

Handsome, attractive

good looks plural noun

Attractive appearance

goodˈman noun

  1. A yeoman (obsolete)
  2. (usu with cap) formerly prefixed to the name of a man of yeoman's rank (fem goodˈwife; obsolete)
  3. /gŭd-manˈ/ (chiefly Scot; archaic; also gude-) a householder or husband (fem goodwifeˈ)
  4. The Devil (euphemistic)

goodman's croft noun

A patch once left untilled in Scotland to avert the malice of the Devil from the crop

good-mornˈing or (archaic) good-morrˈow noun and interjection

A salutation at meeting or parting early in the day

good nature noun

Natural goodness and mildness of disposition

good-naˈtured adjective

good-naˈturedly adverb

good-naˈturedness noun

goodnightˈ noun and interjection

A common salutation on parting at night or well on in the day

goodˈ-now interjection (obsolete or dialect)

An exclamation of wonder, surprise or entreaty

good offices plural noun

  1. Mediation
  2. Influence, agency

good oil noun (Aust informal)

Credible or reliable information

good people or good folk plural noun (euphemistic)

The fairies

good sailor noun

A person who tends not to suffer from seasickness

good Samaritan see Samaritan

goods engine noun

An engine used for drawing goods trains

good sense noun

Sound judgement

goods for own use plural noun (bookkeeping)

Stock taken by the owner of a business for his or her own private purposes, the sale price of which is debited to the owner's drawings account and credited to the sales account

goodsireˈ, also gudesireˈ /güd- or gid-/ or gutcher /gutˈshər/ noun (obsolete Scot)

A grandfather

goodˈ-sized adjective

(fairly) large

goods on approval plural noun (marketing)

Goods delivered and examined for a trial period before a decision to buy them is made

goods on consignment plural noun (marketing)

Goods delivered to an agent by a principal and sold on behalf of the principal

good-speedˈ noun and interjection (archaic)

A contraction of I wish you good speed (ie success)

goods received department noun (business)

One that deals with the reception of goods, and is responsible for checking the condition of goods on delivery, etc

goods received note noun (business)

A document completed by the storekeeper upon receipt of materials or goods from an outside supplier

goods train noun

A train of goods wagons

good-temˈpered adjective

  1. Of a kindly disposition
  2. Not easily made angry

Good Templar noun

A member of a temperance society, modelled on the Freemasons

goodˈtime adjective

  1. Pleasure-seeking
  2. (of music) purely for entertainment

goodˈ-timˈer noun

good turn noun

Something done for someone in a kind and helpful spirit or manner

goodˈwife (or /-wīfˈ/) noun

The fem of goodman

goodwillˈ noun

  1. Benevolence
  2. Well-wishing
  3. The established trade, reputation, efficiency, popularity, and valuable personal relationships with customers, of a business or trade, often appearing as one of its (intangible) assets, with a marketable money value
  4. In consolidated accounts, an intangible asset representing the difference between the acquisition price of a subsidiary and the fair value of its assets and liabilities at the time of acquisition (finance)

goodˈwill or (obsolete Scot) good-willˈy adjective

  1. Well-wishing
  2. Expressive of goodwill

good works plural noun

Acts of charity

goody bag noun

A bag containing a number of small gifts, given to people attending a party or promotional event

goodˈy-goodˈy adjective and noun

  1. (a person) affecting a smug or obsequious show of virtue
  2. (a person who is) insipidly benevolent or pious

as good as

  1. The same as, no less than
  2. Virtually

be as good as one's word

To fulfil one's promise

for good or for good and all

  1. Permanently
  2. Irrevocably

get (or have) the goods on (informal)

To obtain proof of someone's wrongdoing or criminal activity

good and (informal)

  1. Very
  2. Completely

good for anything

Ready for any kind of work

good for you

An interjection expressing approval (Aust informal good on you)

goodness of fit (statistics)

The extent to which observed data matches the values predicted by a theorem

goods and chattels see under chattel

in good faith

Honestly and without any intention to deceive (good-faithˈ adjective)

in someone's good books

In favour with someone

make good

  1. To fulfil, perform
  2. To compensate
  3. To become successful, esp unexpectedly
  4. To do well, redeeming an unpromising false start
  5. To repair
  6. To justify

no good

  1. Useless
  2. Futile
  3. Worthless

not, hardly, etc good enough

  1. Not sufficiently good
  2. Mean, unfair, very different from what was expected or promised

stand good

  1. To be lastingly good
  2. To remain

the good

Virtuous people collectively

the Good Book

The Bible

the goods (slang)

  1. The real thing
  2. That which is required, promised, etc

think good (obsolete)

To be disposed, to be willing

to the good

  1. For the best
  2. On the credit or advantage side

up to no good

Doing something mischievous or wrong

word /wûrd/

noun
  1. The smallest unit of language that can be used independently
  2. Such a unit represented in writing or printing, usu separated off by spaces
  3. (in pl) language as a means of communication
  4. A saying or expression
  5. A brief conversation
  6. A rumour
  7. A hint
  8. A signal or sign, as in say the word
  9. A message, as in send word
  10. One's solemn promise
  11. One's expressed will or wishes
  12. A declaration
  13. News or information
  14. A password
  15. A watchword
  16. A war cry
  17. (in pl) verbal contention
  18. (in pl) discussion in contrast to action
  19. (in pl) the lyrics of a song, etc
  20. (in pl) the text of an actor's part in a play
  21. Used as combining form after a letter, to mean ‘that (esp unmentionable or taboo) word beginning with’, eg m-word for ‘marriage’ (informal)
  22. A set of bits stored and transferred as a single unit of meaning (computing)
transitive verb
  1. To express in (esp carefully chosen) words
  2. To speak to, or of, in words (obsolete; rare)
  3. To flatter (Shakespeare)
intransitive verb (obsolete)

To speak, talk

ORIGIN: OE; Gothic waurd, ON orth, Ger Wort; L verbum word, Gr eirein to say, speak

wordˈage noun

  1. Words generally, esp text as opposed to pictures, etc
  2. Verbiage, wordiness
  3. Quantity of words, length of text
  4. Choice of words, wording

wordˈed adjective

Expressed in words

wordˈily adverb

wordˈiness noun

The quality of being wordy

wordˈing noun

  1. The process of expressing in words
  2. Choice of words, phrasing
  3. Speaking, utterance (archaic)

wordˈish adjective (obsolete)

Verbose

wordˈishness noun

wordˈless adjective

  1. Unspoken
  2. Silent

wordˈlessly adverb

wordˈlessness noun

wordˈy adjective

  1. Using too many words to say something, long-winded, esp pompously so
  2. Conducted in words

word association noun (psychiatry)

The psychoanalytic practice of giving patients a word to which they have to respond with the first word that occurs to them, a technique believed to afford insights into the unconscious

word bite noun (informal)

Any brief quotable item from a speech, etc, sounding as if it carries an important message

wordˈ-blind adjective

word blindness noun

The lack or loss of the ability to read, a non-technical name for both alexia and dyslexia

wordˈbook noun

  1. A book with a collection of words
  2. A dictionary or vocabulary

wordˈbound adjective

  1. Unable to find expression in words
  2. Bound by a promise

wordˈbreak noun (printing)

The point of division in a word that runs onto the following line

wordˈ-building noun

The formation of words from letters or from root words and affixes

word class noun

A set of words that all share a common grammatical property

wordˈ-deaf adjective

Affected by word deafness, inability to distinguish words, resulting from damage to the auditory part of the brain

wordˈ-finder noun

  1. A book designed as a tool for finding a required word
  2. A thesaurus

wordˈgame noun

Any game or puzzle in which words have to be constructed, deciphered, etc

wordˈlore noun

Information about the history, use, etc of words

word memory noun

The power of recalling words to the mind

word order noun

The sequence in which words are arranged in a sentence, relevant to the sense in many languages, including English

wordˈ-painter noun

wordˈ-painting noun

The act or art of describing vividly in words

wordˈ-perˈfect adjective

Having memorized (words to be repeated, recited, etc) exactly

word picture noun

A description in words that presents an object, scene, etc, to the mind as if in a picture

wordˈplay noun

Punning or witty repartee exploiting verbal ambiguity, etc

word processing noun

The arranging and storing of text with the aid of a word processor

word processor noun

Any of several types of machine that perform electronically the tasks of typing, data-recording, dictating, transcribing, etc, usu incorporating screens for visual display

wordˈ-puzzler noun

A person who engages in puzzles or games involving words

word salad noun (psychology)

A confused outpouring of speech consisting of real and non-existent words, typically occurring in severe cases of schizophrenia

wordˈsearch noun

A puzzle consisting of a grid filled with letters, within which various words are hidden

wordˈsmith noun

  1. An accomplished user of words (sometimes ironic)
  2. A coiner of words

wordˈsmithery noun

wordˈ-splitting noun

Hair-splitting, quibbling

word square noun

A square grid composed of a set of words that read the same down as they do across

word wrapping or word wrap noun (computing)

(on a screen) the automatic placing of a line feed between words so that any text placed beyond the right hand end of a line is moved to the start of the next line, wraparound

at a word

  1. Without more ado, at once
  2. To be brief, in short (obsolete)

a word in someone's ear

A confidential conversation

be as good as one's word

To keep one's promise

break one's word

To fail to keep one's promise

by word of mouth

Orally, through the spoken word (wordˈ-of-mouthˈ adjective)

eat one's words

To retract what one has said, or apologize for it, usu under compulsion

fair words (archaic)

Pleasant, conciliatory words, usu implying flattery or deceit

get a word in edgeways

To interpose what one needs to say with difficulty into a conversation dominated by others or another

have a word with

To speak to, usu for some specific purpose

have no words for

To be at a loss to describe or express

have words

To quarrel, dispute (with with)

in a (or one) word

In short, to sum up

in other words

Saying the same thing in a different way

in so many words

  1. Explicitly
  2. Bluntly

in word

In one's speech or professions only, in contrast to one's deeds

keep one's word

To fulfil one's promise

my word or (old) upon my word

A mild interjection expressing surprise, dismay, etc

not the word for it

Not a strong enough word to express or describe it

of few (or many) words

Taciturn (or verbose)

of one's word

(in a man of his word, etc) having a reputation for keeping one's promises

on my word

On my honour, truly

pass one's word

To make a promise

put in a good word for

To make commendatory mention of (someone) in a quarter where it will do him or her good

put words into someone's mouth

To attribute or supply to someone words that he or she did not, or does not intend to, use

take someone at his (or her) word

To take someone's offer, etc literally

take someone's word for it

To accept what someone says as true, when one has no means of knowing personally

take (or take up) the word

To begin speaking or continue a discourse begun by someone else

take the words out of someone's mouth

To say exactly what someone else was about to say

the last word

  1. The closing remark in an argument, esp if having an appearance of conclusiveness
  2. The conclusive statement
  3. The ultimate authority
  4. (also the latest word) the most up-to-date design or model, the most recent advance in something or a consummate example of it

the Word (of God) (Christianity)

  1. The Scriptures
  2. The gospel message
  3. The second person in the Trinity, the Logos

too funny, stupid, etc for words (informal)

Exceptionally funny, stupid, etc

word for word

Literally, verbatim

words fail me

I am unable to express my feelings or reaction

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