| 单词 | home comforts |
| 释义 | > as lemmashome comforts 7. concrete. A thing that produces or ministers to enjoyment and content. (Usually plural; distinguished from necessaries on the one hand, and from luxuries on the other.) creature comforts (see creature n. Compounds 2). So home comforts. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > material comfort(s) ease1393 creature1540 creature comforts1641 comfortable1650 comfort1659 convenience1673 conveniency1712 home comfort1797 comforter1837 1659 J. Arrowsmith Armilla Catechetica 58 The Scripture useth diminishing terms when it speaks of creature-comforts. 1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. I/1 The comforts of this life. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 205 Very moderate in his estimate of the necessaries, and even of the comforts of life. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 11 Before they quit the comforts of a warm home. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 300 A modern Englishman..finds in his shooting box all the comforts and luxuries of his club. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. x. 66 Steeped in the creature comforts of our hotel. 1873 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Wooin' o't xxi Another..dainty apartment, supplied with every comfort. < as lemmas |
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