| 单词 | hale and hearty |
| 释义 | > as lemmashale and hearty 4. Free from infirmity or physical weakness; sound in constitution; robust, vigorous. Often in hale and hearty.Now the usual sense; frequently used of elderly people. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from disease soundc1175 hailc1275 unfect?1504 unsick?1536 sicklessa1547 unafflicted1599 uninfected1625 diseaseless1653 hale1684 undiseased1745 unaffected1793 undisordereda1807 afflictionless1874 symptom-free1962 1684 tr. Zosimus New Hist. iv. 244 A party of men that had been lately taken into the Army, who were lusty hale Fellows. 1734 C. Jarvis Let. 24 Nov. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 126 Finding my old friend..so hale at 83–4. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. i. 24 Then came the strong hale voice of the huntsman-soldier with its usual greeting. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxvi. 541 A hale hearty old age. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 66 Uncle Charles was a hale old man with a well tanned skin. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners 43 Some men in this world, they don't do nothing at all, and you feel that they would dead [sic] from starvation, but..they looking hale. 2007 Sunday Times 24 June (Eire News section) 1 The doctor is still hale and hearty at the age of 103. < as lemmas |
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