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单词 from home
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from home
b. from home.
(a) Away from one's house or abode; not at home; abroad. Now somewhat archaic. [Quot. 1573 shows a misapprehension of Italian di casaccio ‘at random’ ( < di de prep. + casaccio randomness, haphazardness (a1541; < caso case n.1 + -accio , suffix forming nouns with pejorative connotation)), as if derived < casa house (see casino n.).]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home > not
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c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 4 Ne bið neauer his hus for þeos hinen wel iwist for hwon þet he slepe oðer ohwider from hame [Royal fare from hame], þet is hwen mon forȝet his wit.
c1300 St. Katherine (Harl.) l. 177 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 539 (MED) Þemperour fram home was afare.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 461 We beeþ nouȝt at home in þis worlde, but from home and gistes; we come nouȝt to dwelle here, but to wende hens.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3350 Ysaac was not fra hame.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 461 Now hafe I..all to lange lengid fra hame.
1526 C. Mery Talys f. xiiv Sirra I vnderstand that thou dost ly euery night with with my wyfe when I am from home.
1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 223 I come from home [It. vengo di casaccio], that is, I neither winne nor lose.
1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgr. in Wks. (1883) 27 Her husband being from home.
1672 R. Townley Let. 15 Aug. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1973) IX. 212 I have of late beene so much from home yt I could not attend ye successe of my water bellows.
1738 S. Johnson London 225 Sign your will, before you sup from home.
1796 J. Moser Hermit of Caucasus I. 238 He was continually from home, running from one house to another.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 15 I have been kept from home, beyond my promised hour.
1886 M. W. Hungerford Green Pleasure & Grey Grief III. vi. 113 Having run away from home.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 23 ‘You will not find Dr. Jekyll; he is from home,’ replied Mr. Hyde.
1946 D. Du Maurier King's Gen. iv. 37 It showed want of delicacy to come here asking to see me when my brothers are from home.
2003 N. Barr Flashback (2004) 318 For young men not long from home there was no person more reassuring than a woman their mothers' age.
(b) Ill at ease; out of one's element. Cf. at home at Phrases 1a(c)(i). Obsolete.
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1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. ii. 77 You are never from Home, if you have such a Horse under you.
1870 T. Purnell in C. Lamb Compl. Corr. & Wks. I. p. xxiv He was from home with formal and conventional people. The friends he most cherished were men who had some individuality of character.
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