| 单词 | death's gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath's gate death's gate n. = the gate of death at gate n.1 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > point of death's gateOE the gate(s of death1340 lasta1382 (in) the article (formerly also articles) of death1483 death's door1515 the valley of the shadow of death1535 (one's) last gasp1564 death door1601 extremity1602 on one's last legs1614 verge1750 the Great (Continental) Divide1908 OE Vitellius Psalter ix. 15 Qui exaltas me de portis mortis : þu þe upahefest me æt deaðes geate. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xliv. 131 Our soule to dust: is brought downe, euen iust at deathes gate. 1659 S. Rutherford Let. 12 Sept. in Joshua Redivivus (1765) 425 Though I was lately knocking at death's gate, yet could I not get in, but was sent back for a time. 1751 London Mag. July 328/1 He's only safe. Who thro' death's gate has pass'd. 1834 W. B. Chorley tr. K. T. Körner Lyre & Sword 90 In dying, Still Heavenward, as on victory, rests thy view; For Freedom through death's gate must thou pursue! 1921 L. L. Rice Sonnets to B. B. R. 24 Together at Death's gate adieu to men Regretful bid. 2006 N. Galland Revenge of Rose ii. vii. 388 You aren't recovered at all, you're at death's gate. < as lemmas |
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