“over、careful”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

over-careful

释义

ˈover-ˈcareful, a.
[over- 28.]
Too careful, excessively careful. Hence ˈoverˈcarefully adv., ˈoverˈcarefulness.
a1591H. Smith Serm. (1592) 988 If we bee carefull, wee are ouer carefull.1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 68 The foolish ouer-carefull Fathers.1648Petit. Eastern Ass. 31 We are not overcarefull, whether we live, or whether we die.1842Manning Serm. (1848) I. 359 Over-careful about money, or fretful in a low estate.1852Thackeray Esmond iii. ii.1865Dickens Mut. Fr. I. ii. xiv. 296 ‘The sister,’ said Bradley, separating his words over-carefully, and speaking as if he were repeating them from a book, ‘suffers under no reproach.’1870― E. Drood ii. 9 Life, for you, is a plum with the natural bloom on; it hasn't been over-carefully wiped off for you.1881Chicago Advance 18 May 312 Without over-carefulness as to the future.1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 122 Three basia or shorter and smaller oscula have been overcarefully scraped away.

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