单词 | as they rise |
释义 | > as lemmasas they rise P3. as they rise: as they come, as they really are. Now rare.Used by Pope in quot. 1733 as part of an extended metaphor; in early use often with allusion to this. ΚΠ 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 14 Shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners, living as they rise. 1792 Bee 3 Oct. 161 These, my dear friend, are the effusions of experience, and not of fancy;—take them, living, as they rise,—use them. 1802 L. Engelbach Let. in Naples & Campagna Felice (1815) xi. 189 I do not hunt after adventures, but when they fall into one's way, why not catch them ‘as they rise’. 1858 Amer. Congregational Year-bk. 31 People, take them as they rise, are greatly given to be lazy. 1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance (1908) xxxi. 277 He sells you your stock brick back at a pound a thousand took as they rise bats and all. < as lemmas |
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