| 单词 | in store |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (great, good) store ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > in abundance [phrase] in wonea1300 by (or with) large metc1300 in plentya1382 in (the most, etc.) substantious manner1533 at fouth1535 in (great, good) store1600 thick on the ground1893 in spades1929 a-go-go1961 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vii. xxv. 121 It was a fountaine from the liuing stone, That powred downe cleree streames, in noble store. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 137 There is no region or countrey in the world, where these are not bred in some store, as shall be declared afterwarde in the particular discourse of euery kind of Dogges. 1621 tr. Irish Act 28 Hen. VI c. 3 Whereas the theeues and euil doers encrease in great store. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Schweitzer Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 288 Goats are in good store here. in store b. in store: in reserve, laid up for future use. Hence (of events or conditions in the future) in store for: awaiting (a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > in store [phrase] in storec1386 in bank1646 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [phrase] > in store (for) over a person's headc1390 in store for1657 in for1773 c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Prol. 17 Youre termes, youre colours, and youre figures, Keepe hem in stoor, til so be that ye endite Heigh style. c1421 in 26 Pol. Poems xix. 13 Man! is þe laft no loue in store? 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 124 Wheles in store Shodd iiij pair Bare xiiij pair. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxvii. E This yeare shalt thou eate that is kepte in stoare, & the next yeare soch as groweth of himself. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Ciii For unlesse ye repent, god hath vengeaunce in store. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X6v Then for her sonne..Was young,..In her owne hand the crowne she kept in store, Till ryper yeares he raught. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xl. 255 They alwaies kept in store a pretext, either of Justice, or Religion, [etc.]. 1657 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 61 I shall be confident that Heaven hath a perticuler blessing in store for mee and for my family. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. v. 14 I have so many objections in store, you are not to count much upon getting over one. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 306 (note) It was determined..that a hundred and seventy thousand barrels of gunpowder should constantly be kept in store. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxxv. 310 What such surprise can be in store for me? 1874 Punch 25 Apr. 180/1 Better days are in store for men and husbands. 1913 J. Willcock Life Sir H. Vane iv. 56 Nothing but humiliation was in store for Vane. < as lemmas |
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