单词 | hard at it |
释义 | > as lemmashard at it b. hard at it: busily or energetically engaged in some action or process (specified or implied); working with great effort or intensity. Cf. at it at at prep. 16b. ΚΠ 1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie 29 He hied him thither, and found them all hard at it by the teeth. 1636 H. Peacham Coach & Sedan sig. B4v Their Masters who have bin hard at it, at the Taverne overnight, would..have lyen till nine or tenne. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 15 Apr. (1971) IV. 103 I to my office and there hard at it till almost noon. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. v. 32 Pray who hath been the Occasion of putting her into those violent Passions? Nay, who hath actually put her into them? Was not you and she hard at it before I came into the Room? View more context for this quotation 1762 L. Sterne Let. 19 Oct. in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 294 Miss Shandy is hard at it with musick, dancing, and French speaking. 1811 J. Austen Let. 30 Apr. (1995) 186 By this time I suppose she is hard at it, governing away—poor creature! 1897 W. Beatty Secretar 182 I was hard at it raxing my brains trying to think. 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters xxvii. 269 Pinto beans..were no sooner out and stacked than the men were hard at it putting in winter wheat. 1964 C. Willock Enormous Zoo i. 13 The circular saws were soon hard at it. 2005 Gay Times Dec. 12/1 Will's been hard at it lately—and not just at the gym. < as lemmas |
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