| 单词 | in store for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin store for 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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