| 单词 | life-tide |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife-tide life-tide n. †(a) the stream or flow of lifeblood (in quot. by extension perhaps: (one's) livelihood, inheritance) (obsolete); (b) the tide or stream of (one's) life (now rare and archaic). ΚΠ 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 245 [She] endowed the same with her owne Patrimonie and Livetide [L. patrimonioque suo ditauit]. 1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds lxvi. 308 Seeing the life-tide of every creature is inconstant, and doth quickly poste away, Nature doth endeavour by reason of the continual expense of his threefold substance whereof he consisteth, to conclude the breach by respiration and nutriment. 1827 L. H. Sigourney Poems 28 But see! his life-tide flows Beneath his brother's javelin. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities iii. xiii. 233 The life-tide of the city. a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 113 Though from his throat The life-tide leaps There was not threat On his lips. 2006 Yonhap (S. Korea) (Nexis) 2 Aug. It was three years later that his life tide began to turn. < as lemmas |
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