| 单词 |
nearabout |
| 释义 |
nearabout, adv.|ˈnɪərəbaʊt| Also near about, nearabouts, near 'bout. [f. near adv.2 + about adv. and prep., abouts adv. and prep.] †a. In this vicinity; nearby. Obs. b. dial. Nearly, almost; approximately.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) vi. 20 Þe fairest maydens of þe cuntree nere aboute. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 133 Neere abouts was that great and terrible combat. [1702Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1882) VIII. 20 The front of the Old house..is neer abt Eleven foot from the street.] 1708Ibid. 81 The mouth of the Said creek bears Neer about North East from ye Knowl of Trees. 1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. 206 Yes, I believe everybody's married, near⁓abouts, as far as I can learn. a1878Ainslie Land Burns (1892) 357 A towmond nearabout has run. 1907A. Quiller-Couch Major Vigoureux xxii. 251 The tide bein' nearabouts on the top of the flood. 1928‘M. Chapman’ Happy Mountain iii. 25 All the fields were nearabout flat. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling i. 9 ‘I near about give you out, son,’ he said. 1941J. Faulkner Men Working i. 19 We can make twelve bales of cotton, near 'bout, every year. |
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