| 单词 | at a birth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat a (also one) birth P1. at a (also one) birth (with reference to the bearing of a specified number of offspring): at a single act of childbirth; after one pregnancy. ΚΠ 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxiii. 112 She was long tyme barayne, but god whiche loueth holynesse and humylyte, gaf and sente to her two children at ones, and at one byrthe [Fr. en une ventrée]. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 229 That girles sister yesterday had two children at a birthe: had two twenesse. 1787 M. Garthshore in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 357 The lady..produced at one birth eight perfect children. 1877 E. Coues Fur-bearing Animals ii. 52 They [sc. wolverenes] bring forth in burrows under ground,..and have four or five young at a birth. 2000 P. J. Jarman in P. M. Kappeler Primate Males iii. 25/1 All macropodid species bear a single young at a birth, after a gestation of 21–38 days. < as lemmas |
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