| 单词 | it is peril |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit is peril 3. A matter of danger; a dangerous matter. Now only in it is peril: it is dangerous (to do something). Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > there is danger in a course of action [phrase] it is perilc1325 wad1524 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6786 (MED) Gret peril it was, Vor þer miȝte come to al þe lond gret wo uor such cas. c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 89 Peril is bothe fyr and tow tassemble. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 123 It es grete peril to pursue þe Tartarenes. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 60 Whedir it were perell to do her counsaile or not. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 2065 (MED) It is perile and not goode Moche or ofte to taste of that foode. c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 164 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 81 You know what perrele it is together, To ley hyrdis fast vnto the fyer. 1586 R. Maitland in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) xiii. 26 Greit perrell is for to pas our the ferrie Into ane lekand bot. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxx I helped to hang my neighbours for that it were peril to my own life to show lack of zeal. 1960 J. Carswell South Sea Bubble i. 19 He produced the ‘fine print’ which it is peril to leave unread. < as lemmas |
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