| 单词 | mortal combat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmortal combat b. Of war, a battle, etc.: fought to the death. Now usually in mortal combat. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > [adjective] > of battle mortalc1387 battle mort?1553 c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 61 At mortal [v.r. mortaill] batailles hadde he been fiftene. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xviii. 290 The kynde is of a knyȝt oþer for a kynge to be take among here enemys in morteils [v.r. morteil, mortele, mortail, mortel] bateles. c1450 Siege Thebes (Rawl.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 50 (MED) He fonde hem fighting togidre in ful mortall wise. c1500 Melusine (1895) 144 There bygan a mortal medlee. 1548 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 481/1 The mortall weiris, crudeliteis, depredatiounis and intollerabill iniuris. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xlvi. sig. D2v Mine eye and heart are at a mortall warre, How to deuide the conquest of thy sight. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 125 The shocking Squadrons meet in mortal Fight. View more context for this quotation 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ix. 165 All stood astonished at his presumption, but none more than the redoubted Knight whom he had thus defied to mortal combat. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. v. 325 The mortal combat between the Inquisition and the Reformation was already fully engaged. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xxviii. 392 That other day in far distant Africa, when Tarzan of the Apes had closed in mortal combat with the great anthropoid—Terkoz. 1983 Action Man Ann. 1984 78/2 Rangers set off in pairs in Space Speeders to engage the invading fleets in mortal combat. < as lemmas |
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