By
[baɪ]
解釋/意思:
(pref.) In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
(pref.) On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
(pref.) Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side of; past; as, to go by a church.
(pref.) Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty feet by forty.
(pref.) Against.
(pref.) With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.
(adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; present; as, there was no person by at the time.
(adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by.
(adv.) Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
(a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
整理:瓦莱丽
同義詞及近義詞：
prep. [1]. Through (as the cause, or the remote agent), WITH, by the agency of, by means of, by dint of.[2]. At, on, by way of.[3]. From, according to.[4]. Near to, close by.[5]. Past.[6]. Along, over.
ad. Near.
杰勒德整理
解釋/意思:
prep. at the side of: near to: through denoting the agent cause means &c.—adv. near: passing near: in presence of: aside away.—adv. By′-and-by soon presently.—ns. By′-blow a side blow: an illegitimate child; By′-cor′ner an out-of-the-way place; By′-drink′ing (Shak.) drinking between meals; By′-elec′tion a parliamentary election during the sitting of parliament: By′-end a subsidiary aim; By′-form a form of a word slightly varying from it; By′-gō′ing the action of passing by esp. In the by-going.—adj. By′gone.—ns. By′-lane a side lane or passage out of the common road; By′-mō′tive an unavowed motive; By′name a nickname; By′-pass′age a side passage.—adj. By′-past (Shak.) past: gone by.—ns. By′path a side path; By′-place a retired place; By′play a scene carried on subordinate to and apart from the main part of the play; By′-prō′duct an accessory product resulting from some specific process or manufacture; By′road a retired side road; By′room (Shak.) a side or private room; By′-speech a casual speech; By′stander one who stands by or near one—hence a looker-on; By′-street an obscure street; By′-thing a thing of minor importance; By′-time leisure time; By′way a private and obscure way; By′word a common saying: a proverb: an object of common derision; By′work work for leisure hours.—By-the-by By the way in passing.—Let bygones be bygones let the past alone.
n. anything of minor importance a side issue a thing not directly aimed at: the condition of being odd as opposed to even the state of being left without a competitor as in tennis &c.: in cricket a run stolen by the batsman on the ball passing the wicket-keeper and long-stop the batsman not having struck the ball.—By-the-bye or -by incidentally by the way.
編輯:梅根
例句/造句/用法:
- Being merely sheltered by others would not promote growth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Wiley is another case of the creative mind harassed by the routineers. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I believe that he would have come all the way had it not been that Dr. Ferrier, who lives near me, was going down by that very train. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The grate might have been the old brazier, and the glow might have been the old hollow down by the flare. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The first known application of the kind was made by Mr. Murdoch, an engineer in the employment of Messrs. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Yes, but such care could have been furnished by any one of us. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He took my chin in his large hand and turned up my face to have a look at me by the light of the candle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The palliative measures we may pass by quickly. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Her lover was no longer to her an exciting man whom many women strove for, and herself could only retain by striving with them. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The heart was thrilled, the mind astonished, by the power of the preacher: neither were softened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Often, indeed, when pressed by Hortense to come, she would refuse, because Robert did not second, or but slightly seconded the request. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This was done with effect, as is proved by the Confederate reports. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We can here consider only a few cases; of these, some of the most difficult to explain are presented by fish. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It would seem to be always the same question, for, it is always followed by a press of people towards the third cart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Such is the process by which the youth passes from the necessary pleasures to the unnecessary. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It will by no means follow, however, that the real exchange was against it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- By only raising my voice, and saying any thing two or three times over, she is sure to hear; but then she is used to my voice. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- And he had hardly looked up, to see what the matter was, when he was stopped by having a pair of arms thrown tight round his neck. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I am to understand, then, that you hold by the determination expressed in your letter? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
編輯:梅根