| 单词 | dweller by |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdweller by a. Of position: Near, close at hand, in another's presence or immediate neighbourhood; occasionally after verbal nouns, as in dweller by, stander by, Naut. phr. stand by! = be ready. See by- comb. form 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] nighOE anewstOE nearOE yhendeOE hendc1175 hendena1200 anighc1275 besidesc1275 bihalvec1275 beside1297 narc1325 on (also upon) hand (also hands)c1330 bya1400 anighsta1425 nearabout?a1425 near-awaya1586 a hand1637 anear1798 c993 Battle of Maldon 182 Begen ða beornas þe him big stodon.] a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14282 Men say hir þat bi stood Rennonde. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xl. 93 Oþir Lordis, þat war by. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 35 If any be~drede man or woman ly by. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xi. f. cxxxviij Because of the people that stonde by I sayde it. 1602 Returne fr. Parnassus (Arb.) iii. iii. 43 He thinkes hee hath gulld the standers by sufficiently. 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. D4 My Brother, being not by, now to protect her. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. xv. 57 Methinks you sit by very tamely. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. vii. 101 Stand by to haul over the boom-sheet, when she pays off. 1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 39 Patients are often accused of being able to ‘do much more when nobody is by’. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stand by! the order to be prepared. < as lemmas |
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