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单词 lay down one's arms
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to lay down (one's) arms
e. to lay down (one's) arms and variants: to put down or stop using one's weapons; to surrender; to stop fighting. [Compare Middle French mettre jus les armes (c1502), Middle French, French laisser les armes (1559 in the passage translated in quot. 1579, or earlier).]
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1568 tr. Kinges Edict vpon Pacification of Realme sig. E.iv They may safelye retire them selues vnto their houses, & there to lay downe their armes. [No corresponding sentence in the French original.]
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 778 Antonius requested agayne that bothe of them should lay downe armes [Fr. que tous deux..les laissassent].
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 345 Before we will lay downe our iust-borne Armes. View more context for this quotation
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. ii. vi. 115 They cannot lay down Arms, nor rejourn the Parliament to any other place.
1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes iv. 289 He wou'd not lay down his Arms, saying it was better to die, than to run into the Lion's Mouth.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 275 The emperor was made a prisoner, and his astonished troops laid down their arms.
1848 St. John Fr. Rev. 245 Lay down your arms.
1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. ix. vi. 142 18,000 French soldiers laid down their arms to the raw army that had defeated them at Baylen.
1945 tr. P. J. Goebbels in Times 23 Feb. 3/4 If the German people lay down their arms, the whole of eastern and south-eastern Europe..would come under Russian occupation.
1976 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 14 Zimbabwean Nationalists who patiently tried a negotiated settlement cannot now be expected to lay down arms.
2008 New Yorker 25 Aug. 29/1 Ban Kimoon..requesting all nations at war to lay down their arms.
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to lay down (one's) arms
1. transitive. To put (something that one is holding or carrying) down upon the ground or any other surface; to put off, discard (a garment, armour). to lay down (one's) arms: to surrender.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)]
to let awaya1000
forcast?c1225
to lay downc1275
forthrow1340
flita1375
removea1382
to cast away1382
understrewc1384
castc1390
to lay awaya1400
to lay asidec1440
slingc1440
warpiss1444
to lay from, offc1480
way-put1496
depose1526
to lay apart1526
to put off1526
to set apart1530
to turn up1541
abandonate?1561
devest1566
dispatch1569
decarta1572
discard1578
to make away1580
to fling away1587
to cast off1597
doff1599
cashier1603
to set by1603
moult1604
excuss1607
retorta1616
divest1639
deposit1646
disentail1667
dismiss1675
slough1845
shed1856
jettison1869
shake1872
offload1900
junk1911
dump1919
sluff1934
bin1940
to put down1944
shitcan1973
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > put or lay down
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seta1000
to lay downc1275
to put downa1382
to set downa1400
deposec1420
to sit down1600
depositate1618
deposit1749
ground1751
plank1859
the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > as a garment, weapon, etc.
to lay downc1275
to lay awaya1400
to lay asidec1405
to lay by1439
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing
to do offeOE
to lay downc1275
to weve offc1290
stripc1320
doffa1375
loose1382
ofdrawa1393
casta1400
to take offa1400
warpa1400
to cast offc1400
to catch offc1400
waivec1400
voidc1407
to put off?a1425
to wap offc1440
to lay from, offc1480
despoil1483
to pull offc1500
slip1535
devest1566
to shift off1567
daff1609
discuss1640
to lay off1699
strip1762
douse1780
shuffle1837
derobe1841
shed1858
skin1861
peel1888
pull1888
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lay or put down
to lay downc1275
to set netherc1275
to put downa1382
submit1543
down1595
society > armed hostility > defeat > suffer defeat [verb (transitive)] > surrender (a town, etc.)
yield1297
ayield1450
render1481
surrender1509
capitulate1610
to lay down (one's) arms1659
to ground arms1855
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2528 Leie [c1300 Otho ley] a-dun þin hære-scrud & þinne rede sceld. and þi sper longe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3296 Mi hernes dun heir did i lai.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 165 Lay doun thy swerd, and I wol myn alswa.
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 224 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 13 I did as myn moder saide, In þe corn myn howk doun lade, and bad it do þat do sulde I.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxxiij That with al spede they laye downe theyr weapons, and deuise some meanes of concorde.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 451 (note) They laid down their arms, and put on mourning.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvii. 618 She laid down the cup of tea.
1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 142 Eighteen thousand French soldiers laid down their arms to the raw army that had defeated them at Baylen.
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