| 釋義 |
somethingpron.
1. a certain thing 某物，某某東西。
△ Mer.3.2.182(181): “every something.”一切的一切。
2. a certain quantity,a portion,a bit 一些，部分，一點兒。
△As.3.2.439 (413): “for every passion some-thing,and for no passion truly anything，” i.e.a bitinclined to every sort of feeling,yet never really any-thing definite. 每一種感情都來一點兒，可沒有一種感情是真切的。
3. a little influence 一點兒權(quán)勢。
△H.VIII.4.1.114:“Come,gentlemen,ye shall go my way,which / Is tothe court,and there ye shall be my guests; / Some-thing I can command.”來吧，二位先生，你們得跟我走，到宮里去，做我的客人；我在宮里還是有一點兒權(quán)勢的。
somethingad. somewhat,rather,to some extent 多多少少，有點，在某種程度上。
△Mer.1.1.125 (124): “Bysomething showing a more swelling port / Than myfaint means would grant continuance.“ 為了稍稍擺出一點我的微薄收入所不能長久支持的豪華排場。
△L.L.L.4.2.56 (55):“I will something affect the letter，”我要多多少少試用“頭韻”。
△Shr.2.1.184 (183):“something hardof hearing”，i. e. somewhat deaf. 有點兒耳聾。
△ Shr.5.2. 54: “A good swift simile,but something cur-rish.”比喻很好很快，只是帶點狗臭氣。
△ Wiv.1.4.14(13): “he is something peevish (i.e. somewhat silly)that way；”他在這方面有點呆。
△Wiv.4.6.22: “Whileother jests are something rank on foot.”當別人正在開玩笑，有些混亂之際…
△Mid.3.2.304: “Because she issomething lower than myself，”因為她比我矮一點兒。
△Ado.2.1.307 (295): “something of that jealouscomplexion.”臉上帶著那么一點兒嫉妒的顏色。
△As.2.4.63 (62):“but it grows something stale with me.”不過它對于我來說似乎有點兒陳腐了。
△ As.3.4.8: “Some-thing browner than Judas’s.” 比猶大的頭發(fā)還要紅一點。
△Rom.2.4.142 (133): “something stale and hoar”，有點陳腐發(fā)霉了。
△Ham.3.1.181 (172):“shall expel/This something settled matter in his heart，”會排除掉盤踞在他胸中的這樁心事。
△ Lr.3.5.3 (2): “How,mylord,I may be censured,that nature thus gives way toloyalty,something fears me to think of.”殿下，我為了忠心，這樣不顧父子的常情，不知別人會怎樣評判我，讓我想起來有點害怕。
△H. VIII.1.1.193:“I am sorry / To hear this ofhim,and could wish he were / Something mistaken in’t.”聽了關(guān)于他的這些話，我覺得很難過，只希望在這里邊對他有點什么誤會。
Phrases:
something a: a somewhat 一個多多少少的。
△2H.IV.1.2.213 (187): “My lord,I was born about three of theclock in the afternoon,with a white head and some-thing a round belly.”i.e.I have looked old sincebirth. (It might be implied that Falstaff,as a dramat-ic creation,was born in the early afternoon,whichwas the time of play performances in Shakespeare’sday.) 大人，我是大約在下午3點鐘出世的，一生下來就有白頭發(fā)、圓肚子。
something from: some distance away from 距離…遠一點。
△Mac.3.1. 131 (130): “for ’t must be doneto-night,/ And something from the palace；”因為這件事一定要在今晚干好，并且離宮殿要遠一點。 |