| 单词 | long live ——! |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong live ——! P5. long live ——!: an acclamation wishing long life and prosperity upon (a person, esp. a ruler) (cf. sense 6a and vivat int.); also in extended use. The king is dead. Long live the king! [after French Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi!, supposedly announced upon the death of King Charles VI of France and the accession of his son Charles VII in 1422] : used to imply continuity through a period of change. ΚΠ a1618 J. Sylvester tr. J. Bertaut Parl. Vertues Royall in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Divine Weekes & Workes (1621) 862 Long live the Story Of valiant Princes in the Fane of Glory. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 253 Now let us sing, Long live the king! And Gilpin, long live he! 1835 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine (new ed.) xi. 143 ‘The king is dead!’ After a pause of deep and awful silence, the same voice proclaimed—‘Long live the king!’ 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 58 173 a Long live the railway mania! 1869 Sydney Punch 13 Mar. 129/2 Let's come now, boys, and ‘do a beer’, Long Live the Queen. 1940 Music Educators Jrnl. 27 75/1 Long live the Journal, and the Conference organization as a whole! 1953 Times 29 May 3/3 At roof level hang scrolls reading ‘Long live the Queen,’ and from them fall white and red banners of the City arms. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Dec. b1 When he left, a lot of people thought: The king is dead. Long live the king. But it wasn't like that. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 13 Mar. 19 Two days of protests led by hundreds of monks shouting ‘Independence for Tibet’ and ‘Long live the Dalai Lama’ were broken up by thousands of police. < as lemmas |
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