| 单词 | a hard chapter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa hard chapter ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > hardship > a) hardship(s) hardnesseOE hardship?c1225 fitc1325 hardinessa1398 a bitter spreada1500 endurancea1555 endurement1605 straina1628 a hard chapter1684 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 146 I dare say it was a hard Chapter that then he did read unto them. View more context for this quotation 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) We say 'tis a hard Chapter when a man suffers undeservedly. And by way of reproof, we say, he read him a Chapter in Job. 1699 Frampton in Life of Ken. (1854) 766 An hard chapter you'll say, for me. 1721–33 J. Strype Eccl. Mem. III. i. x. 91 Lady Jane..had a very hard chapter to be set up to be queen, even against her will,..and soon after adjudged to be executed for being queen. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 277 Necessity is a hard Chapter. < as lemmas |
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