单词 | a day's journey |
释义 | > as lemmasa (also one) day's journey b. With qualification: a (also one) day's journey = 1a; two (three, etc.) days' journey, the distance travelled in the number of days specified. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey > specific two (three, etc.) days' journeya1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11741 Of þritty dayes Iourney þro Þou shal haue but a day to go. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) v. 15 Fra Beruch three day iourneez es þe cytee of Sardyne. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 200 God sente the prophete Ionas to the grete Cite of Nynyvee, wyche was a thre-dayen Iornay. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxxviijv Trent is..thre dayes Iorney on this syde Venise. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 231 A whole Day's Journy. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 261 Sending at least Twelve Days Journy for their Fuel. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 102 The King said to him, How many days' journey distant? < as lemmas |
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