| 单词 | dead of winter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead of winter 2. = Dead period, season, or stage. dead of night, dead of winter: the time of intensest stillness, darkness, cold, etc.; = ‘depth’ (of winter). †dead of neap, the extreme stage of neap tide. (Cf. A. 27.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > darkest period or dead of night dead of night1548 witching hour1762 the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter midwinterOE wintertideOE winterOE wintertimea1398 hiemsc1450 snow-time1535 dead of winter1548 after-winter1593 back-winter1599 snow1778 ice queen1818 old-fashioned winter1829 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cixv In the dedde of the night..he brake vp his campe and fled. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 80 Neere toe dead of midnight yt drew. 1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 4 My iourney was under-taken in the dead of winter. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 260 Euen in the dead of night . View more context for this quotation 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §266 At dead of neap, when the tides run less rapid. 1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 408 In the dead of winter, when nature is without charm. 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive (1867) 25 At dead of night, Clive marched out of the fort. < as lemmas |
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