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单词 english-bred
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English-bred
English-bred adj.
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1603 J. Davies Microcosmos sig. Oo4v For when..he challeng'd All Or English bred, or forraine Nationall To striue for glorie, and a golden Price..Vnanswered, hee Monarchiz'd alone.
1773 Hist. Miss P. Howard I. x. 78 Ever since the British Fair have taken their flowing Ringlets out of the hands of Nature, and put them into the hands of French Friseurs, the nice clean English bred Sons of Venus could no longer wanton there.
1870 L. Shore Lost Son in A. London & L. London Fra Dolcino ii. iv. 267 She just looks To my mind, like some queen from over seas, In all her foreign bravery—you would never Take her for English bred.
1955 E. Boykin Congr. & Civil War iv. 51 In the White House English-bred Louisa Catherine Adams' ‘drawing rooms’ reached a new high in social grandeur.
2007 Australian (Nexis) 9 Apr. 7 Shappi Khorsandi, Iranian-born but English bred, starts off brilliantly with a few well-aimed barbs around the thorny issue of race and religion.
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