| 单词 | a dog's life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa dog's life b. a dog's life: a life of misery, or of miserable subservience. Frequently in it's a dog's life, to lead (a person) a dog's life. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] thave835 i-dreeeOE tholec897 abeareOE underbearc950 adreeOE dreeOE driveOE i-tholeOE throwOE underfoc1000 bearOE bidec1200 suffera1250 abidec1275 drinka1340 endure1340 underfong1382 receivec1384 abyea1393 sustain1398 finda1400 undergoa1400 get?c1430 underganga1470 ponder?a1525 a dog's lifea1528 tolerate1531 to stand to ——1540 to feel the weight of?1553 enjoy1577 carry1583 abrook1594 to stand under ——a1616 to fall a victim to1764 a1528 Fox MSS in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. xxi. 174 Mr. Ford afterwards had a dogs life among them. 1597 G. Fletcher Policy Turkish Empire xv. 45 Hee did there leade a Dogges life. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia viii. 37 An ill beginner, That knows not where to get his Dinner, And will not rise to earn't: for these Leads he a Dogs life. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 23 She..domineers like the devil: O Lord, I lead the life of a dog. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 69 ‘Poor Wolf,’ he would say, ‘thy mistress leads thee a dogs' life of it.’ 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro II. xi. 101 What a life! what a dog's life! 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. x. 183 They've been leading him a dog's life this year and more. 1980 Irish Times 25 Apr. 12/1 (heading) Temporarily speaking, it's a dog's life... The temp's sanity depends upon iron control. 1991 M. Curtin Plastic Tomato Cutter xii. 96 He must have had a dog's life... The only work he did..was to hold a mirror behind the victim's heads and inquire: Is Sir pleased? 1997 P. Kim Cab called Reliable i. 17 If I hadn't married the likes of you, I wouldn't be washing someone else's dishes,..looking after someone else's children. What kind of living is this? This is a dog's life. 2003 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 29 Apr. 34 He'd led her a dog's life, she couldn't bear to talk about it. < as lemmas |
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