| 单词 | field of battle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfield of battle a. The ground on which a battle is fought; a battlefield. Frequently more fully as field of battle, field of fight, etc.A fair field (and no favour): see fair adj. 14b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] fieldeOE place?c1225 fletc1275 champ of battlec1300 champany?a1400 o laundon?a1400 palaestrac1425 battle-stead1487 fighting-stead1487 open fielda1500 spear-field1508 joining-place1513 camp1525 foughten field1569 battleground1588 Aceldama1607 champian?1611 field of honour1611 champaign1614 standing ground1662 fighting-field1676 battlefield1715 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > place where contest is fought out fieldeOE listc1386 cockpita1568 amphitheatre1710 arena1814 scrambling-place1878 scrambling-ground1884 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxxiii. 227 Ac hwam beoð ðonne ðas ðyllecan geliccran ðonne ðæm folce þe on clænum felda weorðlicne sige gefeohtað, & eft innan hira burgum fæste belocene ðurh hiera giemelieste hie lætað gebindan? OE Battle of Maldon (1942) 241 Wearð her on felda folc totwæmed, scyldburh tobrocen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9752 And ich wullen bidden drihten..þat [ich] on þissen felde [c1300 Otho wolde] mote beon ifroured. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2091 (MED) Thei setten day, thei chosen field, The knihtes coevered under Schield Togedre come at time set. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6432 (MED) Wit israel was left þe feild. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 450 Þan foundis Philip to þe fyȝt & þe fild entres. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 130 The Erlis of Lecestir and Glocestre..toke hym and his sonne prisoners in the ffelde. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 53 Sik destructioun of blude was neuer before that tyme sene jn a felde. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 22 Instruments of warre. As well ayerie and marine, as for the field. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 85 They haue vs'd Their dearest action in the tented field . View more context for this quotation 1648 G. Daniel Eclog. v. 200 Rebell mouths..did then confesse Him master of ye feild. 1708 J. Addison Present State War 25 We..cast about for a sufficient number of Troops to face them [sc. the enemy] in the Field of Battle. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 102 The victor is obliged to fight several of those battles before it remains undisputed master of the field. 1812 J. W. Croker Talavera 55 To the very field of fight..The conflagration spread. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 658 These three chiefs..fled together from the field of Sedgemoor. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xi. 174 The English Ambassador remained upon the field of the conflict. 1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 185/2 Only regulars and non-regulars who have skilled training and hardening are reliable on the field of battle. 1942 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 14 366 The heavy guns, once located on the field of battle, might properly be called position-artillery. 2001 D. J. Eicher Longest Night 226 Beauregard was left in command of the field because Johnston made the foolish decision to ride forward and lead attacks himself. < as lemmas |
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