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单词 feet against feet
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feet against feet
e. feet to feet: on the opposite side of the globe in relation to oneself; diametrically opposed. Also feet against feet, foot against foot, foot to foot. Obsolete.
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?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 121 Þei þat dwellyn vnder vs ben feet aȝenst feet.
1499 Bk. J. Mandeville (de Worde) sig. S ijv Prester Iohans londe lyethfoot agaynst foot to Englonde.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aiiij The Apostles of Christe were Antipodes the one to the other, and stode feete to feete the one agaynste the other.
1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Antipodes, people going directly against vs, foote to foot.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. lv. 252 Men are therefore Antipodes one to another, that is, going feete against feete, hauing neuertheles all of them their heads towards heauen.
1614 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Little Bartas in tr. J. Bertaut Parl. Vertues Royal 222 Th'heauie Earth..On th'ample Surface of whose massie Ball, Men (round about) doe trample over-all, Foot against Foot, though still..Their Faces all be towards Heav'n erect.
1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum i. 32 So as our shadows in smooth streams appear, so feet to feet some Animals walk there.
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