英语词汇“at death's door”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

death's door n. a door imagined to stand between life and death; a near approach to, or great danger of, death, esp. through illness; chiefly in at death's door (also hyperbolical).In quot. OE perhaps with (u-stem) genitive singular deaða (see etymological note).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > point of

death's gateOE

the gate(s of death1340

lasta1382

(in) the article (formerly also articles) of death1483

death's door1515

the valley of the shadow of death1535

(one's) last gasp1564

death door1601

extremity1602

on one's last legs1614

verge1750

the Great (Continental) Divide1908

the world > life > death > [adverb] > towards death

hencea1225

to (one's) deathwarda1398

hynea1400

at death's door1515

home1561

deathward1646

deathwards1727

dustward1847

OE Paris Psalter (1932) cvi. 17 Hi onhysctan æghwylcne mete..oð unmihte, þæt hy wið deaða duru [L. ad portas mortis] drencyde wæran.]

1515 A. Barclay tr. B. Spagnuoli Life St. George (1955) viii. 41 This wofull virgyne, complayned all alone As she that was, at dethes dore or brynke.

1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle xviii. sig. Gviij^v To brynge vnto deaths dore, that he maye restore vnto lyfe agayne.

1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant To Rdr. 1 When death comes to our dores, and we are at deaths-dore.

1743 Country Jrnl. 4 June Children have Safely Cut their Teeth, and Done extremely Well, tho' at Death's Door Before.

1817 C. Cuthbertson Rosabella I. vii. 136 Whin [sic] his puny cousin dies, which he will, being more than half entered death's door already, his will be an elegant fortune.

1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. xii. 214 Poor Mrs. Crawley had been at death's door.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 42/3 A poor fellow in the mills whose wife is dead and his two children are at death's door.

1955 S. Milligan Goon Show Scripts (1973) 137 I'll have you know that I've been very ill. In fact I was at death's door twice.

1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xii. 394 Though she eventually survived, the teenager was at death's door for eight days.

单词	at death's door
释义	> as lemmas at death's door death's door n. a door imagined to stand between life and death; a near approach to, or great danger of, death, esp. through illness; chiefly in at death's door (also hyperbolical).In quot. OE perhaps with (u-stem) genitive singular deaða (see etymological note). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > point of death's gateOE the gate(s of death1340 lasta1382 (in) the article (formerly also articles) of death1483 death's door1515 the valley of the shadow of death1535 (one's) last gasp1564 death door1601 extremity1602 on one's last legs1614 verge1750 the Great (Continental) Divide1908 the world > life > death > [adverb] > towards death hencea1225 to (one's) deathwarda1398 hynea1400 at death's door1515 home1561 deathward1646 deathwards1727 dustward1847 OE Paris Psalter (1932) cvi. 17 Hi onhysctan æghwylcne mete..oð unmihte, þæt hy wið deaða duru [L. ad portas mortis] drencyde wæran.] 1515 A. Barclay tr. B. Spagnuoli Life St. George (1955) viii. 41 This wofull virgyne, complayned all alone As she that was, at dethes dore or brynke. 1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle xviii. sig. Gviij^v To brynge vnto deaths dore, that he maye restore vnto lyfe agayne. 1646 P. Bulkley Gospel-covenant To Rdr. 1 When death comes to our dores, and we are at deaths-dore. 1743 Country Jrnl. 4 June Children have Safely Cut their Teeth, and Done extremely Well, tho' at Death's Door Before. 1817 C. Cuthbertson Rosabella I. vii. 136 Whin [sic] his puny cousin dies, which he will, being more than half entered death's door already, his will be an elegant fortune. 1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage III. xii. 214 Poor Mrs. Crawley had been at death's door. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 42/3 A poor fellow in the mills whose wife is dead and his two children are at death's door. 1955 S. Milligan Goon Show Scripts (1973) 137 I'll have you know that I've been very ill. In fact I was at death's door twice. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) xii. 394 Though she eventually survived, the teenager was at death's door for eight days. extracted from deathn. < as lemmas
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