| 释义 |
▪ I. there, adv. (a., n.)
(ðɛə(r), unstressed ðə(r))
Forms: see below.
[OE. þǽr, þár, þér, cognate with OS. thâr, OFris. thêr, dêr, MLG. dār, MDu. daer, Du. daar, OHG. dâr (MHG. dâr, dâ, Ger. da); cf. also Goth. þar, ON. þar (Sw., Da. der); all derivatives of the demonstrative stem þa-, pre-Teut. to- (that, the). The adverbial suffix -r appears also in OE. hwǽr, hwér, hwar, where.
Besides þǽr, etc., OE. had also a rare form þāra, prob. an emphatic deriv., like OHG. dāra, dāre, and not cognate with OHG. dara, MHG. dare, dar, ‘thither’. In ME. all the variants þār, þǣr, þêr, þôr appear also with final -e, perh. taken from the advb. -e in inne, uppe, úte, fore, etc. The later forms thare and there may represent ME. þāre, þêre, or the final e may merely indicate the long vowel.]
A. Illustration of Forms.
(α) 1 þára.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiii. §5 Ac hit is þeah þara. c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark xiv. 15 ᵹe ᵹe-earwiað us þara [Hatton þare, Lindisf. & Rushw. ðer].
(β) 1–3 þǽr, 2 þǽre.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiii. §5 Swa is eac þær fyr on ðam stanum and on ðam wætere. a900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 28 Swa þæt ðær seldon snau leng liᵹeð þonne ðry daᵹas. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 23 He wæs ana þær. a1131O.E. Chron. an. 1123, Ða..ferde se king to Winceastre and wæs ealle Eastren tyde þære. c1200Ormin 2789 Þe laffdiȝ Marȝe comm Till Zacariȝess bottle, And spacc þær wiþþ Elysabæþ.
(γ) 1–2 þár, 2–5 þar, þare, 3–5 north. þaire, 4– thar (now U.S. dial. and colloq.: see also sense B. 2 c (c) below), 4–6 thare (4–5 tare), 6 Sc. thair, yare, yair.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i. §22 ᵹyf þar man an ban findeð unforbærned. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 17 He..lærde hi þar [A. þær, Hatt. þar, Lind. ðer, Rushw. þær] be godes rice. c1275Lay. 27474 Cnihtes þar aswalten; blodes vt hurnen. Ibid. 25651 Þare. 13..Cursor M. 5420 (Cott.) Iacob þaire [Gött. þar] liued seuenten yeir. Ibid. 21655 (Edin.) Thare dide him driȝtin to resune. a1400Morte Arth. 3603 Thare the false men fletyde, and one flode lengede. c1400Rule St. Benet 21 Þai sal be broht by-fore þe cuuent and tare amende hir faute. 1483Cath. Angl. 381/2 Thare, ibi, ibidem, illic. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 33 Greit slauchter oftymes wes maid yair. 1562Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 226 Williame Gordoun in Wigtoun, Johne Martine thair, Robert Johnestoun thair. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 477 A person wishing to imply that he is perfectly at home in any thing, says he is thar; a good hunter or fisher is also thar. 1885Weekly New Mexican Rev. 29 Jan. 4/5 The Santa Rifles had their first drill at Alhambra hall last night... Nearly all the boys have ‘been thar’ before, and as a consequence, catch up the command very readily. 1887[see tchick n.]. 1937W. Blair in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) iv. iii. 645 Hello, thar, gin us ‘Forked Deer’, old fiddle-teazer. 1980‘D. Shannon’ Felony File i. 27 Thar's a big store, with a lot of different departments.
(δ) 1–2 þér, 3–5 þer, þere (4 tere), 5 þeer, theer, 4–6 ther, 4– there.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. v. 24 Forlet ðer [Rushw., Ags. G., Hatt. þær] ðing ðin to wiᵹbed. Ibid. Mark iv. 15 Seðe ymb woeᵹ ðer [Ags. Gosp. þar, Hatt. þær] bið ᵹesauen. c1205Lay. 10 Þer he bock radde [c 1275 þer heo bokes radde]. Ibid. 25651 Nes he þere [c 1275 þare] buten ane niht. Ibid. 29876 Alle..þa þer icumen weoren. c1275Ibid. 8 Merie þer [c 1205 þar] him þohte. Ibid. 582 Þere [c 1205 þer] Brutus nam Antigo[num]. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1796 An vrninde water þat ȝut is þer, ich wene. Ibid. 3519 Þere he huld is parlement. 13..Cursor M. 21104 (Cott.) His bodi is birid tere [rime sper; other MSS. þere]. c1400Destr. Troy 3719 Ermonia þe myld maynly was ther. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. 4189, I was not þere. c1420There [see B. 12]. a1425Cursor M. 22980 (Trin.) Men wene þe doom shal be þeer. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas ix. xxxi. (1558) 32 b, Clement theer concludyng if he may. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 401 The sedes..whiche hade bene sawen þer of olde tyme. c1440There [see B. 9].
(ε) (variants of δ þer, there) 2 þeor, 3 þear, þiar, 5–7 their, 6 thear, 6– dial. theare.
a1200Moral Ode 273 (Lamb. MS.) Þeor beð naddren and snaken. c1200Ibid. 165 (Trin. Coll. MS.) Ne sal þeih no man samie þiar. c1205Lay. 607 Brutus hefde þa men..idon into þan castle & þear heom quic heolde. a1225Leg. Kath. 8 Constantin..wunede summe hwile þear. c1425Cursor M. 10042 (Laud) Their buxumnes holt her state. 1535Coverdale Josh. xxi. 45 Their myssed nothinge of all the good that the Lorde had promysed. 1563B. Googe Cupido Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 117 And..thear, for succour thus doth call. 1570― Pop. Kingd. ii. (1880) 13 Togither stande they theare [rime weare]. 1616Purchas Pilgrimage, India (1864) 49 Three of the Gallions driuen on ground,..and had beene their left but for the Frigates. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. 53/2 For their's no order in Equality.
(ζ) 3–4 þôr, 3–5 þôre, 4–5 thôre.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1844 He droȝ ðider and wunede ðor. Ibid. 2270 Ðat riche louerd ðore. c1300Havelok 922 Go þu yunder and sit þore [rime more]. Ibid. 1044 For neuere yete ne saw he or Putten the stone, or þanne þor. c1300Harrow. Hell (Harl. MS.) 30 Ihesu crist..seide he wolde vacche hem thore [rime sore]. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1021 He..wende haue founde Brutus þore. c1380Sir Ferumb. 544 Þe Sarsyn þat was þor. c1420Chron. Vilod. 2040 To make alle thyngus redy þore [rime byfore]. a1425Cursor M. 409 (Trin.) He vs ȝaf ensaumple þore [rime more; earlier MSS. þare..mare]. c1470Harding Chron. iii. iv, Seleucus than was the first kynge þore [rime afore].
B. Signification.
I. As a demonstrative adverb.
* Expressing locality or position.
1. a. In or at that place; in the place (country, region, etc.) pointed to, indicated, or referred to, and away from the speaker; the opposite of here.
c888[see A. α, β]. a900[see A. β]. c950[see A. δ]. c1050Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) VIII. 303 Þonne beoð þær swa fela concurrentes. c1205Lay. 716 Þær þu findest seouen houndred. c1400Three Kings Cologne 118 Þei ȝede to þe cite of Sewill..and þere þei leuyd .ij. ȝere. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cv. 126 The erle of Derby went to Pelagrue, and ther was sixe dayes. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 23 At our being there it was held with a strong Garrison. 1786Cowper Let. to Lady Hesketh May, I have walked there, but have never walked thither. 1827Scott Highl. Widow iii, The cloudberry..which is only found on very high hills, and there only in very small quantities. 1874R. B. Smith Mohammed, etc. (1876) 322 There if anywhere, will be the Armageddon of Islam.
b. there (in emphatic use) may be defined by a relative clause, following or preceding, introduced by where († there) or an equivalent.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vi. 21 Ðer vel huer forðon is strion ðin ðer is and hearta ðin. c1000Ags. Gosp. ibid., Þær ðin gold is þær is ðin heorte. a1300Cursor M. 20258 Þar i sal be, quar mi sun is. c1500Melusine xxxvi. 294 There where he passed by he enquyred after guedon. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. Pref. ⁋ij b, Where the hedge is lowest, there doth euery man go ouer. 1810Crabbe Borough iii. 195 Where Time has plough'd, there Misery loves to sow. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. ii. i. (1874) 138 Wherever we find law, there we see the certain traces of a lawgiver. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxxiii, There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
2. a. Appended, unstressed, to the name of a person or thing to whose presence attention is called: = Who or that is there, whom or which you see there.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 275 He din'de with her there, at the Porpentine. 1606― Tr. & Cr. ii. i. 91, I would haue peace.., but the foole will not: he there. 1611― Wint. T. ii. iii. 160 You that haue beene so tenderly officious With Lady Margerie, your Mid-wife there. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xlii, There she lay,..her face was upon the pillow there! Mod. Hand me that book there, please.
b. As a brusque mode of address (often in commands) to a person or persons in the place or direction indicated; = you (that are) there. Now also appended casually to exclamations of greeting, etc., as hi (or hello) there!, with varying purpose: freq. to attract attention or to express cordiality.
1589[see hollo, hollow int.]. a1596Sir T. More i. ii. 97 Silence there, hoe! 1605Shakes. Lear iv. vii. 25 Louder the music there! a1619Fletcher Mad Lover iii. ii, Put to the doors a while there. 1676Dryden Aurengzebe ii. i. 24 Your fury hardens me:..A Guard there; seize her. 1840[see hallo, halloa int.]. 1859Habits Gd. Soc. v. 200 He will..use some such phrase as: ‘May I trouble you for that ball, sir?’ not ‘Ball, you there’, as one sometimes hears it. 1885[see hi int. 2]. a1912Mod. Hurry up there! Do you hear there? Pass along there, please! 1924Dialect Notes V. 270 Hi there, (call or warning). 1945T. Williams Battle of Angels ii. i. 33 A girl: Hello! Val: (amiably) Hello there. 1962J. Braine Life at Top xv. 188 ‘Hello there,’ I said, ‘What's new?’
c. Emphatically appended to the demonstrative that. dial. and vulgar. (Cf. here adv. 1 d.)
Also that 'ere, that 'air.
1742Richardson Pamela III. 404 On leaving yours and Mr. B.'s hospitable House, because of that there Affair. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxxvii. 244 Did you ever get a ducking in that there place? Ibid. 245 ‘For the matter of that there’, said the Captain, ‘you must make him a soldier’. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xli, That trunk is mine, and that there band-box, and that pillion mail. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 244 Is that 'air fellow gone yet? 1840Thackeray Catherine vi, How came you by that there horse? 1863Literary Times 20 June, The ‘this here’ and ‘that there’ (euphonically contracted into ‘that 'ere’) of the Cockney.
(b) that there. Used adjectivally and absolutely, often in euphem. reference to sexual activity, esp. in catch-phrase you can't do that there 'ere (see quot. 1933).
1819Byron Let. 26 Oct. (1976) VI. 232 As to ‘Don Juan’ confess—confess—you dog—and be candid—that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing—it may be bawdy—but is it not good English? 1933Squiers & Wark You can't do that there 'Ere in Feldman's 41st Song & Dance Album 37 As they took a kiss, The keeper shouted this: You can't do that there 'ere, so there! You can't do that there 'ere. You'd ought to know you 'ad, I'm sure, That that there 'ere's agin the law. 1937Even. News 13 Apr. 8/3 The British Government gives vent to a ‘John-Bullism’, and says, after the abduction of a Hindu girl from within the border, ‘You can't do that there 'ere!’ 1962Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 406 How suitable, too, for a that-there poet that the room in which his ‘Memoirs’ were burned should now be called the Byron Room. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xi. 96 Long before the song ‘You can't do that there here’, Northerners used that there as a euphemism for the sexual act. It is a standard phrase in the north when youngsters of both sexes are ‘educating’ themselves by discussing sex matters.
(c) Phr. there's gold in them there (freq. thar) hills, with reference to a potentially profitable enterprise or activity. Also allusively. orig. U.S.
1941C. B. Kelland House of Cards xiv. 159 She heard him chuckle. ‘Thar's gold in them thar hills.’ 1961J. L. Austin Philos. Papers vi. 129 There is gold in them thar hills. 1965E. Gundrey Foot in Door xxxiii. 189 There's money in them thar pills—but very little else. 1976New Society 16 Sept. 607/1 There's gold in them there sand-dunes, about 10 million people enjoyed a naturist holiday last year.
3. a. Pointing to something as present to the sight or perception, chiefly in there is, there are |ˈðɛərɪz, ðɛəz; ˈðɛərə(r)|; also, calling attention to something offered (often absol.; cf. 7).
1535Lyndesay Satyre 1355 Tak, thair, ane vther [i.e. blow] vpon thy peild harne-pan. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. ii. 117 There is my hand, You shall be as a Father, to my Youth. 1601― Twel. N. iv. i. 27 And. Now sir, haue I met you again: ther's for you. Seb. Why there's for thee, and there, and there. 1728Ramsay There's my Thumb ii, There's my thumb I'll ne'er beguile thee. 1742Richardson Pamela IV. 375 There's for you, dear Sir! See what a Mother can do, if she pleases! 1890‘L. Falconer’ Mlle. Ixe v, There was that lazy Mr. Lethbridge lounging in the doorway. Mod. There is the dinner-bell; make haste. See, there comes the train. Hark! there goes the bugle.
b. Pointing out a person or object with approval or commendation, or the contrary. Also in anticipatory commendation of the person addressed; cf. that dem. pron. B. I. 1 b.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 163 It grandame will Giue yt a plum, a cherry, and a figge; There's a good grandame. 1596― Tam. Shr. v. ii. 180 Why there's a wench: Come on, and kisse mee Kate. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 224 There's a Word for a Lady's Mouth! 1780Mirror No. 97 ⁋26 ‘Quantity of syllables’, exclaimed the Captain, ‘there is modern education for you!’ 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. I. 191 Tom,..go and fetch the wine for your sister, there's a dear love. 1870Dickens E. Drood ii, Don't moddley-coddley, there's a good fellow. 1872‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-Glass vi. 123 There's glory for you! Mod. There's a fine horse! all skin and bones.
c. there is, usu. contracted to there's (with succeeding adj.): used in statements or exclamations in place of standard English that is or how adv. 7. Welsh dial.
1939R. Llewellyn How Green was my Valley ii. 23 ‘Go on, boy,’ Cedric whispered, ‘there is soft you are to eat old cake.’ 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle v. 113 There's tantalising! Plenty of company and no time for a word. 1968A. Laski Keeper vi. 68 There's sad, about Japhet; that was a good man. 1971‘H. Calvin’ Poison Chasers ix. 123 There's selfish you are, I had him saved up for myself.
4. Used unemphatically to introduce a sentence or clause in which, for the sake of emphasis or preparing the hearer, the verb comes before its subject, as there comes a time when, etc., there was heard a rumbling noise. In interrogative sentences there comes between the verb and subject, as Breathes there the man, etc.?, or follows the first word of a compound verb, as Does there breathe a man?, Shall there be any notice taken of it? The same order was formerly observed after an introductory adv. or clause, as Then came there a voice, Soon shall there arise a prophet.
Grammatically, there is no difference between There comes the train! and There comes a time when, etc.; but, while in the former there is demonstrative and stressed, in the latter it has been reduced to a mere anticipative element occupying the place of the subject which comes later. Preceding or following a main verb, or following any verb, there, thus used, is stressless (proclitic or enclitic: e.g. there-ˈcame, ˈbreathes-there, ˈis-there, ˈwill-there), but preceding be or an auxiliary, there has a slight stress, and the verb is enclitic (e.g. ˈthere-is, ˈthere-was, ˈthere-will).
a. with intransitive verbs.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. iii. §1 Þa com þær gan in to me heofencund Wisdom. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. vii. 25 Þa com þær ren and mycele flod and þær bleowun windas. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3863 And ðer ros wreððe and strif a-non Aȝen moysen and aaron. a1300Cursor M. 19867 Als petre þan bigan til hon [Fairf., Gött. hone] Þar com anoþer voice alson. c1320Cast. Love 736 In þulke derworþe feire tour Þer stont a trone wiþ muche honour. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋537 Ne neuere cam ther a vileynous word out of his mouþ. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xxiii. 70 Ther maye no knyght ryde this wey but yf he Iuste with the. c1477Caxton Jason 22 For to sle a man..ther behoueth but one stroke wel sette. c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World K viij b, There died an infinite number of people. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 59 There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize An auncient booke. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 47 In these Cottian Alpes..there peaketh up a mightie high mount. 1611Bible Numb. xxiv. 17 There shall come a starre out of Iacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxx. 247 There want not sufficient materials on which to form a true judgment. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. i, Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never [etc.]? 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxxii, Lurk there no hearts that throb with secret pain? 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. vii. 399 From all these things there resulted consequences of vast importance.
†b. with transitive verbs: usually before an auxiliary of tense or mood. Obs.
13..Cast. Love (Halliw.) 306 Withoute these..Ther may no kyng lede gret lordship. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 223 Whan it was ones i-tend..þere couþe no man it aquenche wiþ no craft. 14..Hoccleve Compl. Virgin 54 Ther may no martirdom me make smerte. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts 43 b, Peter, knowing..that there woulde some Iewes reproue this his doing.
c. with a verb in the passive voice.
a1533Ld. Berners Huon cxi. 385 There coude not be founde a more goodlyer man. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. x. vii. (1886) 147 Whilest the treasure is a digging, there must be read the psalmes [etc.]. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 99 There's nothing said herein. 1877Ruskin St. Mark's Rest i. §4 There were no plenipotentiaries sent to the East, and back again. Mod. Here, there were found various relics of Franklin's expedition.
d. especially with the verb to be: cf. be B. 1, 1 b, 5 b. there is, there are, are equivalent to F. il est, il y a, Ger. es ist, es sind, es giebt, Sp. hay. (For such phrases as there is no saying = ‘it is impossible to say’, see no a. 4.)
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i. §22 Þær is mid Estum an mæᵹð. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7551 Þer nas prince in al þe world of so noble fame. a1300Cursor M. 17787 Vp risen [he] es, dut es þar nan. Ibid. 20123 Ne was tar noiþer seke ne fere. 13..Cast. Love (Halliw.) 275 Ther wes a kyng of myche myȝht. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5467 Waster [was there] non þat wolde hym feyne. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 147 As þouȝ þer were no lif but only in þis wrecchid world. a1415Lydg. Temple of Glass 179 And some þer were..That pleined sore. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 1 Into the quhilk buke thare salbe foure partis. 1485Caxton Malory's Arthur Pref., Dyuers men holde oppynyon that there was no suche Arthur. 1531in J. Bulloch Pynours (1887) 59 Considering thair has bene and is dalie besynes and ado with the pynouris. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 305 For many Miles about There's scarce a Bush. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 79 Epicurus and his scholars of old.. make this an argument of there being no God. 1782Cowper Alex. Selkirk 2 My right there is none to dispute. 1823F. Clissold Ascent Mt. Blanc 22 There being no moon. 1842Tennyson Lady Clare xi, I will know If there be any faith in man.
e. When a relative clause follows, the relative pron. (that, who, or which) is often omitted. Now chiefly colloq. or arch., as in ballad style.
Cf. that rel. pron. 10, of which this is a case.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1239 Ther is no cloth sitteth bet On damiselle, than doth roket. 1470–85Malory Arthur xiii. iii. 616 There was no knyȝt knewe from whens he came. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 568 There are two Gentlemen Haue in this Robberie lost three hundred Markes. 1806Wordsw. Address to Child 8 But how he will come, and whither he goes, There's never a scholar in England knows. Mod. colloq. There's a man at the door wants to see you.
f. The antecedent, when a simple pronominal word (usu. pl., e.g. they, those, some, rarely sing., e.g. he, she, that), is sometimes omitted. (App. a Latinism, after sunt qui dicunt, and the like.) Cf. that rel. pron. 3.
c1400Destr. Troy 12860 There come out of castels & of cloise townes..þat hom bale wroght. 14..Why I can't be a Nun 244 in E.E.P. (1862) 144 There weren that dyd not so. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. K k iv, There were that saied, that this ambassadour should be chastised. 1560Bible (Genev.) Prov. xi. 24 There is that scatereth, and is more increased. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 101 b, There are of them whiche accompte it a greate offence to touche monie. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xiii. 35 There are, to whom Death doth seeme no more then a blood-letting. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 9 There have been..who pretend [etc.]. 1736Welsted Wks. (1787) 455 There are, I know, who have strong prejudices to opinions of this sort. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) I. 236 Waller called Milton the old blind schoolmaster, and there are who have spoken of Wordsworth as the stamp⁓master. 1864Browning Abt Vogler v, There wanted not who walked in the glare and glow.
5. a. At that point or stage in action, proceeding, speech, or thought; formerly sometimes referring to what immediately precedes or follows: at that juncture; on that; on that occasion; then.
a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 77 At myn endynge..I pray þe lady helpe me þare. a1450Le Morte Arth. 2388 The kynge Arthur Answerys thore Wordys that were kene and throo. Ibid. 3480 ‘A! false traytor’ he sayd thore. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. viii. 46 And euen there his eye being big with teares, Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him. 1602― Ham. ii. i. 19 And there put on him What forgeries you please. 1647May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 76 There we are at this instant. 1706Farquhar Recruit. Officer i. i, Brother! hold there, friend; I am no kindred to you that I know of yet.
b. and there('s) an end: and that is the end of the matter or the last word on the subject; ‘and that's all’. Obs. or arch.
1591,1615[see end n. 23]. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. iii. 64 If not, honour comes vnlook'd for, and ther's an end. 1650Trapp Comm. Exod. vii. 25 As the dog, who getting out of the water, shakes his ears, and there's an end. 1872Ruskin Fors Clav. xvi. §5 Confirmed by the signature of any person whom the Queen might appoint.., and there an end.
6.
†a. In that case; then. Obs.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xvi. §2 Hu ne is se anweald þon þær nauht? 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ix. 32 Þer [B. viii. 37 þanne] weore þe Monnes lyf I-lost þorw lachesse of him⁓selue.
b. In that thing, matter, or business; in that fact or circumstance; in that respect, as to that.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 259 In loue dayes ther koude he muchel helpe, For there he was nat lyk a Cloystrer. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xx. 57 b, If the moneye ordayned for the poore is not there bestowed. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 137 Thy Iuliet is aliue,..There art thou happy. 1602― Ham. iii. i. 65, I, there's the rub. 1605― Lear iv. vi. 148 Oh ho, are you there with me? 1613― Hen. VIII, iii. ii. 408 There was the waight that pull'd me downe. 1855Browning Bp. Blougram's Apol. 85 You would be all, I would be merely much; you beat me there. 1884H. James in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 248/2 It was beastly awkward certainly; there I could quite agree with him. 1896Daily News 17 June 5/4 There is where the Japanese differ from us.
c. Referring to something said or done: In those words, in that act.
a1596Sir T. More i. i. 176 Wil. My maisters..lets..sweare true secrecie vppon our liues. Geo. There spake an angell. Come, let vs along, then. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 86 There spake my brother: there my fathers graue Did vtter forth a voice. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXV. 558 There you have hit the nail on the head, James. Mod. colloq. You have me there! I cannot tell you.
7. Used interjectionally, usually to point (in a tone of vexation, dismay, derision, satisfaction, encouragement, etc.) to some fact, condition, or consummation, presented to the sight or mind. Hence there-there vb. trans., to soothe or comfort by saying these words.
1535Coverdale Ps. xxxiv. [xxxv.] 21 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, sayenge: there, there [1611 Aha, aha!]: we se it with oure eyes. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. i. 87 Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats. 1606― Tr. & Cr. v. v. 43 Ajax. Troylus, thou coward Troylus. Diom. I, there, there. 1788J. O'Keeffe Prisoner at large i. vi, There, sir, the bed's ready. 1798Jane Austen Lett. (1952) 42 There! I may now finish my letter and go and hang myself. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxx, ‘There now’, said Touchwood, ‘there was a rencontre between them—the very thing I wanted to know’. 1840T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xx. 284 It's no such thing, says mother, quite snappishly; Sam is only twenty-one last Thanksgiving-day, and he was born just nine months and one day arter we was married, so there now. 1856Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 295 There! I have put my foot in it! 1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 514/1 ‘There, there’, my poor father answered, ‘it is not that’. 1875L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 101 There now, if I haven't entirely forgotten to say anything about the boys. 1876Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. iii. 115 There, that's your prophecy did that! 1878Browning La Saisiaz 49 There, the dread descent is over. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. ix, And, indeed—but there, what's the good of talking about it. 1893Burrell & Cuthell Indian Mem. 210 But there! I was not going to tell you how you felt. 1894‘J. S. Winter’ Red-Coats 55 My life's my own to do what I like with, and I'm going to 'em now; so there! 1903Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 7/1 She showered blows upon the lad's head and shoulders, with the words,..‘There now, how do you like it?’ 1924R. Macaulay Orphan Island xxi. 280, I suppose you think I'm in love with you. Well, I'm not, so there. 1938D. Runyon Furthermore viii. 159 He..starts whispering, ‘There, there, there, my itty oddleums.’ 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair iv. 39 Only one thing your Aunt Lin makes better than me..hot cross buns, and that's only once a year. So there! 1968J. Sangster Touchfeather xv. 180, I was sobbing my heart out on his chest and he was there there-ing me all over the place. 1969Listener 15 May 698/1 But Gwen was going to marry her lecherous tutor, so there. 1977‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 240 There, There, sir. 1977C. Dexter Silent World N. Quinn 254 Joyce took the baby..and lovingly there-thered his raucous cries.
** Expressing motion to a place.
8. To that place: now taking in ordinary use the place of thither.
there and back, to that place and back again; also as a catch-phrase reply (see quot. 1937). to get there (colloq. or slang): see get v. 31 c.
a900O.E. Chron. an. 894, Wæs Hæsten þa þær cumen mid his herᵹe. c1205Lay. 29876 Alle ut wenden þa þer [c 1275 þider] icumen weoren. 13..Cursor M. 1780 (Gött.) Quen þai cam þar [v.rr. þare, þere] was þar na bote. a1425Ibid. 9929 (Trin.) Waried wiȝt comeþ þere neuer. c1440Alphabet of Tales 122 Þis clerk denyed hym & sayd he come nott þer. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 780 And will not let a false sound enter there. 1610― Temp. ii. i. 99 And the rarest that ere came there. 1663Gerbier Counsel 41 Strangers that come there. 1772in S. Rosenfeld Temples of Thespis (1978) v. 78 Pd Mr. Richards..at 2 Guineas pr Day & expenses there & Back {pstlg}62.5.0. 1803G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 32 Aye, he might have been there and back, over and over again; but my husband is slow enough in his motions. 1830M. Edgeworth Let. 18 Oct. (1971) 419 This ‘Trip to the Viaduct’..five shillings apiece there and back. 1858J. H. Newman Mission Bened. Ord. Sel. Ess. 211 When St. Hubert was brought there. 1871Mrs. H. Wood Dene Hollow xxviii, We shall go only there and back, grandpapa. 1907Westm. Gaz. 7 June 12/1 The ‘there-and-back’ distance between ‘Auld Reekie’ and Inverness is but eight miles less. a1912Mod. Going to the meeting?—I am on my way there. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 874/2 There and back, a c.p. reply to an impertinent or unwelcome inquiry ‘where are you going (to)?’: late C. 19–20. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 191 ‘Where are we going?’ ‘Oh, there and back,’ said the cabbie, giggling.
II. As a relative or conjunctive adverb.
†9. In, on, at, or into which place; = where.
a. with a n. as antecedent.
a800O.E. Chron. an. 755, On þære byriᵹ..þær se cyning ofslæᵹen læᵹ. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vi. 20 Strionas..iuh striona in heofnum, ðer [Rushw. þær] ne hrust ne ec mohðe ᵹespilles. c1000Ags. Gosp. John xviii. 20 Ic lærde..on temple þar [Hatt. þær] ealle iudeas togædere comon. c1175Lamb. Hom. 91 Bi þere stret þere petrus forð-eoðe. a1272Luue Ron 122 in O.E. Misc. 97 Hit stont vppon a treowe mote Þar hit neuer truke ne schal. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7683 In þe tresorie at westmunstre þere it ȝut is. c1300Cursor M. 2904 (Cott.) Þai sink in þat wele Þar neuer man sank Þat was o sele. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 347 In to hir owene dirke Regioun Vnder the ground ther Pluto dwelleth Inne. c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 21 In places there thow wilt have the culture. 15..Merch. & Son 92 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 139 The erthe tremelyd there Wyllyam stode.
b. with there also as antecedent: there there = there where, in that place where.
c1000ælfric Gen. ii. 21 God..ᵹefilde mid flæsce, þær þær þæt ribb wæs. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xiii. 67 Man mot..hine ᵹebiddan, beo þærþær he beo. c1175Lamb. Hom. 85 He..scal þer þer hit is ful, makien hit clene. a1250Owl & Night. 295 Loke þat þu ne beo þare þar changling beoþ. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. 24 Lecherye..mase manes herte to melte, and to playe thare þare his herte lykes.
c. with there serving as both antecedent and relative: (In) the place in which; = mod. where, as in ‘I found it where I left it’.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxii. §1 He nænne ne mæᵹ ᵹebringan þær he him ᵹehet. c1175Lamb. Hom. 35 Ga to þine feder burinesse oðer þer eni of þine cunne lið in. c1220Bestiary 10 Ðe leun..Draȝeð dust wið his stert ðer he steppeð. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 851 And þere men haunted þat custome lest, Falleþ oft tyme grete tempest. c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 5 For þare he es he sekes hym noghte. 13..Cursor M. 2768 (Gött.) Again þaim he ras fra þar [Trin. þere] he sate. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 2926 Thei sayled alle on a rawe, Til thei were come ther thei were knawe. c1440J. Capgrave St. Kath. i. 506 Wyth a G set there C shuld stond. c1500God Speed the Plough 22 Than cometh the clerk..To haue A shef of corne there it groweth. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxiv. 221 It had been better for hym to haue taryed there he was. 1594T. Bedingfield tr. Machiavelli's Florentine Hist. (1595) 182 Your laughing there you are, is the occasion I weep not where I am.
†10. In the very case or circumstances in which; where on the other hand, or on the contrary; whereas, while. (Cf. 6.) Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 219 For nu is euerihc man ifo þare he solde fren[d] be. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 32 Þei han..welfare of mete and drynk, þere þei myȝtten unneþe before have bene-bred and watir or feble ale. c1380Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 134 Þei putten grete penaunce unto men þere Cristis charge is liȝt. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 88 For pouerte haþ bote pokes to putten yn hus goodes, Ther auarice haþ almaries and yre-bounden cofres.
III. 11. as n. That place; the (or a) place yonder.
1588R. Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 202 They..kneeled downe right ouer against there whereas the Viceroye sate in a chaire. 1857–8Sears Athan. 19 [Motion] requires a here and a there. 1888J. Martineau Stud. Relig. I. i. i. 68 In the Space-field lie innumerable other theres that never have been here. 1907Outlook 16 Mar. 339/2 We..draw, laboriously, a small circle in the dark and say, ‘We are here’, forgetful that there is no ‘here’ nor ‘there’. Mod. We shall stay in Birmingham overnight, and go on from there next day. He left there last night.
IV. Phrases. (from I.)
12. a. to be there: to be at or in the place in question; to be present or at hand.
a1300Cursor M. 1248 Þou wat þat i was neuer þare. c1400Brut ccxxv. 295 He wolde be þer him-self in al þe haste þat he myȝt. c1420Avow. Arth. xxiii, Kay callut on Gauan, ȝorne Asshes ‘Quo is there?’ 1600St. Papers Eliz., Domestic CLXXVIII. No. 78 (P.R.O.), Whether Sr John davyes were ther or not thys examinate can not tell. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 1 Who's there? 1722Ramsay Three Bonnets ii. 43 Ha, ha! ye Judas, are ye there? 1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 49 The Duke of Sussex was there, with Lady Arran,..and the whole family of Gore. 1881M. E. Herbert Edith 17 The ‘little rift within the lute’ was still there.
b. to be all there (colloq.): to have all one's faculties or wits about one; to be smart or on the alert; hence, not all there = not quite right in the head.
1864Mrs. Gatty Parab. fr. Nat. Ser. iv. 3 Hans Jansen was what is commonly called not all there. 1883Payn Thicker than Water xx, It was his excusable boast..that when anything was wanted he was ‘all there’. 1889L. B. Walford Stiff-necked Generation 325 ‘Was he there after dinner last night?’ ‘Very much there’. 1900Daily News 23 Apr. 8/1 But they were of the real Lancashire type, and were, as the phrase goes, ‘all there’.
c. to have been there (before) (colloq.): to have had previous experience of the activity or thing under review; to be fully conversant with or know something at first hand. orig. U.S.
1877Sat. Even. Post in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. (1909) 24/1 Some reasons why I left off drinking whiskey, by one who has been there. 1913A. Bennett Great Adv. i. ii. 46 But I'm not a young girl. If it's a question of the male sex, I may say that I've been there before. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) viii. 106 Philo Skinner's been in this racket thirty years. Philo Skinner's been there, baby!
d. in there (U.S. slang): excellent, superlative (esp. of a jazz musician's performance); well-informed, au fait.
1944D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 104 Now, this skull was in there, Jack. 1945L. Shelley Jive Talk Dict. 26 In there, superlative performance. 1955Shapiro & Hentoff Hear me talkin' to Ya vii. 101 The Lincoln Gardens, of course, was still in there. 1958J. Kerouac On Road i. i. 6 It took him just a few months..to become completely in there with all the terms and jargon. 1962Down Beat 13 Sept. 37 A guy playing a horn has..gotta get in there.
13. a. there and then († there then), at that precise place and time; on the spot, forthwith. Also attrib. (Also then and there: see then adv.1 1 d.)
1428in Surtees Misc. (1888) 8 And þar þan he was asked. 1496Coventry Leet Bk. 580 Wheruppon þe seid Laurence was there & then commyt vnto þe Flete. 1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 564 Although God do not say before, that there and then he will strike. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xxxviii, Going on the search there and then. 1908Daily Chron. 16 July 3/5 Happily..a there-and-then agreement was come to on their behalf.
b. here and there, here..there, here, there and everywhere, neither here nor there: see here adv. 9–12.
14. there or († and) thereabouts: primarily in the literal local sense; hence also = that or very nearly that (amount); something like that; approximately. See also thereabouts.
a1696Aubrey Lives (1898) II. 226 (Shakspere) He left 2 or 300li. per annum there and thereabout to a sister. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xiii, ‘Speak plainly, will there be five thousand men?’ ‘There and thereabouts’, answered Dalgetty. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. i. II. 248 A close, or field, containing eight acres, there or thereabouts. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 431 You'll mostly find him there or thereabouts, as long as he's alive. 1890Bp. Lightfoot in Expositor Feb. 91 Forty-six years there or thereabouts had actually elapsed.
15. there he (or she) goes, there you, they, go, is primarily literal, the person going being pointed to (as in 3); but it also calls attention to the way in which a person goes on, acts, talks, etc., usually expressing surprise or disapproval. there it goes! is a common exclamation when a thing falls, disappears, goes off, breaks, bursts, or the like.
1780Mirror No. 97 ⁋32 ‘There she goes, the travelled lady’, cried the Captain; ‘she must always have a fling at her catechism’. 1837Dickens Pickw. ii, ‘They're beginning up-stairs..fiddles tuning—now the harp—there they go’. The various sounds..announced the commencement of the first quadrille.
16. a. there you are! (colloq.) (a) = there you go! in 15; (b) expressing or drawing attention to the simplicity or ready consummation of a process or action; = There it is for you, there you have it, the thing is done; (c) = What did I tell you? (d) expressing resignation to an unpleasant fact.
1857Dickens Dorrit ii. xxv. 536 All the people who had tried to make money and had not been able to do it, said, There you were! [1863H. E. P. Spofford Amber Gods 133 She couldn't hire him a nurse, and there he was.] 1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi xlii. 431 The immortelle requires no attention: you just hang it up, and there you are. 1894A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 142 ‘There you are!’ said Holmes smiling. 1907Westm. Gaz. 22 May 3/1 Tables, setting out in a there-you-are! fashion the declining percentage to the total of British imports into certain countries for two contrasted decades. a1912Mod. Can't find the waiter? That's quite easy; just press that button and there you are! Accidents are common in Alpine ascents; one false step, and there you are! 1915Conrad Victory iv. x. 373 ‘There you are!’ Ricardo shrugged his shoulders philosophically. ‘Can't be helped.’ 1937M. Sharp Nutmeg Tree xix. 250 ‘We've no business to talk about him. But there you are,’ said Julia harshly, ‘I'm the sort of woman any one talks to about anything.’ 1926S. Jameson Three Kingdoms i. 49 I'm sure that's a revolting sentiment, and revoltingly sentimental, but there you are. 1953L. P. Hartley Go-Between xiv. 173 It's a pity we have to shoot so many of them but there you are.
b. there it is = sense 16 a (d) above. Also with past tense.
1857Trollope Barchester T. III. i. 10 There it is. If they haven't the spirit to enjoy it, the fault shan't be mine. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxxiii. 345 So there it was!—but I couldn't help it. 1904H. James Golden Bowl I. xviii. 311 ‘It's not, at any rate,’ she went on, ‘my fault. There it is.’ 1932‘A. Bridge’ Peking Picnic xxiii. 296 He had been hurt hideously, and it made her cry; she was nearly as much surprised as he, but there it was. 1954R. Macaulay Last Lett. to Friend (1962) 196, I feel a little mean about the dear Chapel, but there it is. 1973C. Sagan Cosmic Connection xxii. 150 We would not ordinarily consider the flatulence of cattle as a dominant manifestation of life on Earth, but there it is.
V.
17. there (in branch I) in combination with adverbs and prepositions.
For the history of these, see note s.v. here adv. 16. ‘The compounds of there meaning that, and of here meaning this, have been for some time passing out of use, and are no longer found in elegant writings, or in any other than formulary pieces’ (Todd's Johnson 1818, s.v. Therewithall). But see the Main words thereabout, thereafter, etc.
a. With adverbs, as there all-about, there east, there-without; † there-gates, in that manner; † there-thence, thence; † there-whyne (there-quhyne), from whence. Also thereaway, etc.
b. With prepositions: = that, that place, matter, etc., as there-among († there-imong), there-below, there-between; thereamid († there-emid), amid that; † therebout (there-buten) = thereabout; † therebove (there-buve(n) = thereabove; † therenext, next to that; † thereoffen = thereoffe; † thereouten, out of that; † there-ovenon (there-ufenen), above that; † there-toforn, before that (time). Originally mostly written as two words. See also the main words from thereabout to therewithin.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 198 Noone god of al that weryn *ther al aboute in al regions.
a1300Cursor M. 11988 Mani childer was *þar emid. 1901G. Gissing in Literature 21 Dec. 572/1 Thereamid stood a girl, her eyes fixed upon the prospect of city roofs.
c1220Bestiary 601 He ðe swiken *ðer imong.
1899Westm. Gaz. 18 Apr. 2/1 It is a real joy to know that the pilot-fish does hide itself within the capacious throat, or some snug harbourage *therebelow, when danger threatens.
1876Morris Sigurd iii. 194 And lingering flecks of the cloud-host are tangled *there-between. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche, October 9 She..sweeping therebetween a passage wide, Made clear of corn and chaff the temple space.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3625, .vii. moneð *ðor buten he ben. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11614 Bruggen hii breke oueral hii ne beleuede ssip non..þer boute [C. aboute].
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. viii. 52 *Ðærbufan is ᵹeteald hwelc he beon sceol. a1300Floriz & Bl. 294 Aboue þe walle stant a treo..lef and blosme beoþ þer buue.
1639Baillie Lett. 28 Sept. (Bann. Club) I. 201 The Tables *there East thought meet they should not conjoyne, bot divided them in foure.
c1440York Myst. xii. 48 Þus may *þer-gatis be mente.
13..Cursor M. 141 (Cott.) *Þar neist [F. þar next] sal be sythen tald How þat ioseph was boght and sald. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 71 Under a treen brugge þat was þere next.
c1450Lovelich Merlin 6294 The wheche child to hire schal ben browht; but *there-offen the peple may weten nowht.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3364 And he smot wið his wond ðor on, And water gan *ðor vten gon.
c1205Lay. 12423 Heo bigunnen..ane swiðe deope dich & *þer ouen on ouer al ænne strongne stanene wal. Ibid. 17696 Þer ufenen he hæfde Ane ladliche here.
c1475Partenay 3125 *Ther thens to uavuent [Vauvent] A man sent in message, Which full courtois was, inly wise also.
a1425Cursor M. 12479 (Trin.) [He] wende þe maistir were of lyue As oþere *þer to forn were.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 77 And *thairquhyne cumis this?
a1500Flower & Leaf 71 Al tho that yeden *there without.
▸ colloq.to have been there, done that and variants: to be fully experienced in or familiar with something, esp. to the point of boredom or complacency. Also as int.: been there, done that (etc.), flippantly expressing boredom, impatience, or total lack of interest.
1982Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 21 Feb. 11 Miss Tewes, who has just divorced, says she doesn't plan to get married at this time. Using an Australian expression, she says, ‘Been there, done that.’ 1984L. Kallen & C. B. Greenfield Piano Bird i. 11 You don't have to prove anything... You've been there, you've done it, one more credit, what do you care? 1991Ski Surv. (BNC) Feb. Knee Injuries. Rosemary Burns has been there, done that and got the T-shirt. She gives fellow sufferers her sympathy and sound advice. 1995Internet World Feb. 5/1 (advt.) Getting bored watching your 14.4 modem limp along the Internet? How about those endless downloads, especially for images and sound clips? Been there, done that. 2000New Yorker 11 Sept. 48/3 He liked the idea of..space-based interceptors but couldn't see the purpose of a new treaty that would once again give Russia a veto over our defenses. ‘Been there, done that,’ Cooper says.
▪ II. there
obs. gen. and dat. sing. fem. of the; obs. var. of their, thir; inflexion of tharf v. Obs. |
