| 单词 | mortal foe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmortal foe a. Of an enemy: that will be satisfied only with the death of the foe; implacable, unappeasable. Frequently in mortal enemy, mortal foe. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [adjective] > (of a foe) relentless or implacable mortalc1385 the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective] > merciless > unrelenting > of an enemy mortalc1385 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1590 For I am Palamon thy mortal [v.r. mortel] foo. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 2027 To grieve his mortiel enemy. c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2072 Saul laide for his dethe als for hys mortale enemy. c1450 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 3134 But that they be..Mortal foon to chastite. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 116 He suld..hald him..for his jnymy mortall. 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 60 The mortallest enemy I have in this world? 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vi. 20 The mortallest enemy unto knowledge. View more context for this quotation 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 9 Pleasure and Pride, by Nature mortal Foes. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 445 Halifax was the mortal enemy of despotism and of Popery. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xx. 453 Other peoples meet a new idea as if it were a mortal foe; the Parisians as if it were a longlost friend. 1994 Guardian 14 June i. 16/5 The long-haired, furrowed-forehead Klingons, once mortal enemies of Captain Kirk, but now among the friendlies in the new version of Star Trek. < as lemmas |
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