| 单词 | in pairs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin pairs a. Two individual persons, animals, or things of the same kind, taken together (esp. when associated in function, purpose, or position), but not necessarily forming a fixed set; a couple, a brace. Chiefly with noun complement (now usually introduced by of). in pairs (formerly also †by pairs): grouped into sets of two.Sometimes hard to distinguish from sense 1. pair of colours: see colour n.1 20c. pair of knives: see knife n. c. extracted from pairn.1 (a) In singular and plural without complement or with of. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun] pairc1300 couple1365 paira1382 gemels1382 pair1391 yokea1425 brace1430 binarya1464 match1542 twin1569 binity?1578 twoa1585 couplement1596 Gemini1602 couplet1604 twain1607 duad1660 dyad1675 duet1749 tway?a1800 doublet1816 two-group1901 two-grouping1901 coupling1961 c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 566 Swiche [two maidens] him serueþ a day so faire, Amoreȝe moste anoþer peire. c1390 G. Chaucer Cook's Tale 4386 Nas ther no prentys That fairer koude caste a paire of dys. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. fvj A Couple or a payer of botillis. a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 114, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pair Ane pair of slecht dice. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 12 A payre of great white syluer lyuery Pots for Wine. 1623 W. Lithgow Most Delectable Disc. Peregrination (new ed.) 172 A paire of Mulets, being tied to euery Coatch. a1642 J. Suckling Poems 37 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) And there did I see comming down Such folks as are not in our Town Vorty at least, in Pairs. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Mark vi. 13 The Jesuits send forth their Emissaries by Pairs. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 86. ⁋14 The third pair of syllables in the first..verse have their accents retrograde or inverted. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) ix. 338 I saw, methought, a pair of Knights Joust underneath the trees. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. x. 181 A low phæton, with a nice little pair of ponies. View more context for this quotation 1873 R. A. Proctor Elem. Astron. xiii. 121 The stars of the pair are seen to circle round each other. The very fact that they so circle shows not only that they form a real pair, but that they attract each other. 1915 Our Boys Cookery Bk. 123 Bake... Place in pairs with jam between and icing on top. 1946 E. Linklater Private Angelo xx. 257 Two pairs of matched plough-oxen arrived in Pontefiore. 1987 Asian Art 1 i. 18 We catch a glimpse of him to the right between a pair of tree trunks. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names ii. 38 A competition with a pair of front-row seats as first prize. (b) In singular, preceding the noun complement without of. Now only in abbreviated style. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun] pairc1300 couple1365 paira1382 gemels1382 pair1391 yokea1425 brace1430 binarya1464 match1542 twin1569 binity?1578 twoa1585 couplement1596 Gemini1602 couplet1604 twain1607 duad1660 dyad1675 duet1749 tway?a1800 doublet1816 two-group1901 two-grouping1901 coupling1961 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 3 Kings xix. 21 He tooc a peyre [a1425 L.V. tweine; L. par] oxen & sloowȝ it. 1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 4 (MED) I bequethe to the same Thomas..a peyre schetes of Reynes. 1414 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 172 (MED) A bordcloth, a peire towelles, a mete borde, a peyre trestelles that standys in the parlour. 1663 Inventory Ld. J. Gordon's Furnit. in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright (1855) Thair is in the bed, a caffe bed, a fethir bed, a pair blankets, and a red worset rug. 1876 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 12 Jan. 74/3 Pair splendid white eyed cumulets. 1906 Springfield Daily Republ. 7 Feb. 2 (advt.) Pair gray farm chunks, 9 years, 2350 lbs. (c) With unmarked plural (with or †without of). ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 64 Sexe peire of synewes comen fro þe brayne. 1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 32 ij peire of my best shetes. 1536 in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 195 Two pair of Censers, silver and gilt, of bossed work. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. iii. 328 Seven pair of Nerves..disseminated into the whole outward Head. 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 149 There were two organs, and two pair of French horns. 1785 H. Swinburne Trav. in Two Sicilies II. xliv. 305 Twenty-three pair of oxen were ploughing together within a square of thirty acres. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Necessaries Two pair of worsted stockings at 2s. 5d. each pair. 1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind ix. 94 I don't believe there are more than two pair of carriage-horses in the whole..place. < as lemmas |
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