| 单词 | oft-repeated | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasoft-repeated  C2.   Preceding a participial adjective used attributively (usually with hyphen), as  oft-quoted,  oft-recurring,  oft-repeated,  oft-told, etc. Cf. often adv. and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1560    Medit. Penitent Sinner sig. Aa3, in  A. L. tr.  J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias  				I fallyng to the ground,..Poure forth my piteous plaint with woefull sound, With smoking sighes, & oft repeted grone. a1586    Sir P. Sidney Arcadia 		(1590)	  ii. vi. sig. R8v  				Partaker of this oft-blinding light. 1609    G. Markham Famous Whore 4  				Mine oft sold maiden head grew stale. 1626    F. Quarles Feast for Wormes 		(ed. 2)	  v. sig. E4  				With oft-repeated labours, oft attented, They..deepely delu'd the furrow'd Seas. 1671    J. Milton Samson Agonistes 575  				Oft-invocated  death.       View more context for this quotation 1682    J. Dryden Religio Laici 22  				Such difference is there in an oft-told tale; But truth by its own sinews will prevail. 1718    A. Pope tr.  Homer Iliad IV.  xiii. 495  				The oft-heav'd Axe. a1722    J. Lauder Decisions 		(1759)	 I. 333  				The oft debated cause of the Capers of the two prize Danish ships. 1728    J. Smedley Gulliveriana 338  				That Fam'd, oft-quoted Wind! I trow, Which Good to Nobody does blow. 1798    H. Brand Conflict  ii. i, in  Plays & Poems 171  				The oft-recurring hopes of fabled bliss. 1809    M. Holford Wallace  i. vii. 6  				From Solway's oft disputed deep To Stroma's wild and stormy isle. 1859    Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1854–8 6 318  				The attacks of an oft-recurring malady. 1864    J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 270  				An old and oft-repeated tale. 1899    Harper's Weekly 14 Jan. 50/3  				No new light is thrown upon the oft-debated question about the three-battalion organization for the infantry regiment. 1922    J. Joyce Ulysses  ii. xi. [Sirens] 263  				Her first merciful lovesoft oftloved word. 1954    O. Nash Face is Familiar 		(rev. ed.)	 115  				The oft-quoted remark of the prominent and respectable dignitary. 1976    M. Butterworth Remains to be Seen i. 11  				The wary air of an oft-disappointed augur reading entrails. 1997    N.Y. Times 10 June  b1/1  				An oft-told apocryphal story of a mother who, spying her child trapped under a school bus, finds the strength to lift the vehicle. < as lemmas  | 
	
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