| 单词 | for a long, short, etc season |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfor a long, short, etc. season b. for a season: for an indefinite period, for some time, for a while. Similarly, for a long, short, etc. season. Also adverbially, without for. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a time (for) a spacec1405 for a long, short, etc. season1465 a whilst1595 for a spell1745 1465 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 1/17 Than stode y stille a litile Sesone. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxv. 267 Than Oberon stode styll a season. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 500 There hath long season depended variance & contrauersie betwixt you. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke iv. f. lxxix He departed from hym for a season. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. ix. 21 That it might further the Stomachs Concoction, and make the meats abide therein, a convenient season. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xix. 169 Or if it please thee, though impatient, wait, Short season. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. i. 8 This most..beautiful human soul; who walked with me for a season in this world. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 70 He was constrained for a season to leave the successors of Leofric and Siward in possession of [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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