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单词 million-footed
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million-footed
million-footed adj.
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1852 U.S. Democratic Rev. Jan. 72 Blown across the English channel, and let down in the bustling, million-footed and million-headed world of Paris.
1885 W. B. Yeats Island of Statues ii. iii, in Dublin Univ. Rev. July 137/1 Though I be Far fleeter than the million-footed sea.
1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & River ii. vii. 89 He saw the narrow, twisted age-browned streets of Boston..the sight of the man-swarm passing in its million-footed weft.
1947 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 20 546 It may be easily blighted..by the swiftness of the tempo of our million-footed society.
1987 B. A. Powe Ice Eaters iii. i. 180 Isolation in the city was worse. All around was Thomas Wolfe's million-footed manswarm, indifferent as the figures in a wax museum.
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