英和和英

前置詞句

like fun

1. (manner, US, dated) Intensely.
   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 16:

     "Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.

   • c. 1868, James Crane, a song, in Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, Stephen E. Ambrose, 2001, page 286:

     "The railway's begun The Mormons are cutting / And grading like fun."

2. (as response, US, dated) Definitely not.
   • 1927 October 7, “Chess Championship.”, in Ottawa Citizen:

     Do they think I have a million dollars and spend it? Like fun I do. Not with the kind of discipline my parents believe in.

   • a. 1946, Raymond J. Healy, J. Francis McComas, editor, Adventures in time and space: an anthology of modern science-fiction stories, page 607:

     "Give me that gun!" "Like fun I will," Leigh snapped.