单词 | from place to place |
释义 | > as lemmasfrom place to place b. from place to place: from one place to another, and on to yet other places. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither hither and thitherc725 here and there1297 from place to placea1398 hitherward and thitherwarda1398 from post to pillarc1500 from pillar to posta1550 from wig to wall1602 hither and yon1787 hither and yond1831 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > in order, sequence, or succession [phrase] > from one place to another in succession from place to placea1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 116 Þe mone makeþ a man vnstable and chaungeable and removinge aboute fro place to place [L. de loco ad locum]. ?a1450 Metrical Life Christ (1977) 40 (MED) Oure Lord so dere And his disciples..gon aboute from place to place. a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 457 Crist wente mekely fro plase to place. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1361 He pervsed the whole towne..from place to place. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccxcix, in Poems (1878) 211 Like the Race Of Nomades, wee shift from place to place. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 98. ¶3 This holy Man travelled from Place to Place. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. v. 443 The capital of a wholesale merchant..may wander about from place to place, according as it can either buy cheap or sell dear. View more context for this quotation 1852 Votes & Proc. Victoria Legislative Council 1852–3 (Austral.) II. 327 Men who would really ‘set in’ to work steadily are driven about from place to place. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 13 Like a bird..blown with a broken wing Into our sooty garden, he drags and beats From place to place perpetually, seeking release. 1994 Pacific Affairs 67 335 Blind drifters who roam from place to place to seek their fortunes without any job offer or definite plans of survival. < as lemmas |
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