| 单词 | hill and dale |
| 释义 | > as lemmashill and dale a. A valley. In the northern counties, the usual name of a river-valley between its enclosing ranges of hills or high land. In geographical names, e.g. Clydesdale, Annandale, Borrowdale, Dovedale, it extends from Lanarkshire to Derbyshire, and even farther south, but as an appellative it is more or less confined to the district from Cumbria to Yorkshire. In literary English chiefly poetical, and in the phrases hill and dale, dale and down. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] deanc825 dalec893 sladec893 bachea1000 valley1297 vall?1611 droke1772 glen1843 nant1862 draw1864 laagte1868 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. iii Þæs dæles se dǽl se þæt flod ne grette ys gyt to-dæg wæstmberende on ælces cynnes blædum. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14568 & wude & feld. & dale & dun. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9203 Nu sket shall illc an dale beon All heȝhedd upp. & filledd. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Hwile uppen cliues and hwile in þe dales. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 207 Iþe dalen..þu makest wallen to springen. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13444 Heo comen..in ane dale deope. c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 85 By dale and eek by doune. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22532, l. 22534 Al þis werld bath dale and dune..þe dals up-rise, þe fells dun fall. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 112 Dale, or vale, vallis. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxi. 60 They..rode by hylles and dales. 1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 204 Galloway, Carrik, Niddisdaill, Annanderdaill, with the rest of the Daillis in the West. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xiv. 17 The valley of Shaveh, which is the Kings dale [1885 R.V. vale] . View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons 110 Where winded into lovely solitudes Runs out the rambling dale. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Linlithgowshire Its surface is finely diversified with hill and dale. 1810 W. Wordsworth Descr. Lakes in J. Wilkinson Select Views p. xx That part of these Dales which runs far up into the mountains. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 208 Till over down and over dale All night the shining vapour sail. View more context for this quotation 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Around Whitby all the valleys are ‘dales’.. There are many smaller dales into which the larger are divided. ‘Deealheead’ is the upper portion of the vale; ‘Deeal end’ being the lower part. hill and dale b. Often contrasted with dale, plain. (In this use hill occurs in the singular without article.) hill and dale: also, applied to any markings or groovings likened to hills and dales; spec. used attributively to denote that manner of making gramophone records, or the records themselves, in which the undulations are cut in a vertical plane by the recording stylus. Also, applied to the alternating ridges and hollows of waste rock, etc., which are created by open-cast mining or ironstone working; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > undulating form waving1789 waviness1790 undulation1798 billowiness1826 hill and dale1918 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > type of cutting by stylus hill and dale1929 lateral1942 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3997 Prykynge ouer hulle & pleyn, Til he cam to Charlemeyn. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxxiv. 134 Then the sonne..toke hir with him, and Ronne to-gedir ouer hillis and dalis, til tyme that thei come to the castell. c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. iii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 Ylls, wodes and dales. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B4 But euery hil and dale, each wood and plaine. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 639 When it is Summer in the Hils, it is Winter in the plaines. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 262 About me round I saw Hill, Dale, and shadie Woods. View more context for this quotation 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxvii. 108 And hill and wood and field did print The same sweet forms in either mind. View more context for this quotation 1918 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. 1929 P. Wilson & G. W. Webb Mod. Gramophones ii. 34 This form of record has several advantages over the hill-and-dale cut. 1931 News Chron. 20 Mar. 15/2 A graph, whose hills and dales represent maximum and minimum velocity of each of a series of strokes. 1949 Hansard, Commons 6 Dec. 1835 The whole countryside is disfigured by deep cuttings and large tracts of what is known as hill and dale—impassable areas of heaped limestone. 1949 Hansard, Commons 6 Dec. 1844 We do not really know enough about hills and dales to be quite satisfied in all cases. 1964 A. Nelson Dict. Mining 218 Hill-and-dale formation.., a term applied to the ridges and hollows along the surface of dumped material (usually over-burden) at an opencast mine. < as lemmas |
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