| 单词 | morning's work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmorning's work C4. Compounds with morning's, with the sense ‘taking, lasting, or sufficient for, a morning’, as morning's work, etc. ΚΠ a1704 T. Brown Dispensary in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 68 What will be the Charges of this Morning's Work? 1780 in J. Nichols Lit. Anecd. (1815) IX. 263 The Lord Chancellor..returns him many thanks for a very agreeable morning's amusement. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. vii. 195 To so practised and indefatigable a horseman as Mr. Rochester, it would be but a morning's ride. 1895 T. Hardy Jude iii. vii. 212 She arrived by the ten o'clock train.., Jude not going to meet her at the station, by her special request, that he should not lose a morning's work and pay. 1984 J. Frame Envoy from Mirror City (1987) xvii. 133 I saved a morning's kerosene for my heater. 1995 Daily Mail Ski Mag. Feb. 50/1 I joined the ski school—and at the end of my morning's torture, collapsed—a gasping mass of C&A nylon. < as lemmas |
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