| 单词 | one's rest of life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's rest of life (also days) a. That which remains or is left over; the remaining, esp. unused, amount or portion; the residue. In later use only in one's rest of life (also days): the remaining period of one's life. Now poetic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] bilevena1325 reliefa1382 residuea1382 remanant?a1400 remanence?a1425 remanent?a1425 remainc1430 remainant1430 rest?1440 remainingc1480 remainer1519 remanet?a1527 remainder1560 resident1581 residuum1636 restancy1667 residual1839 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xii. 603 Thus bokis twelue anende, and oon is rest. 1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. ij The reste thenne is thys, that thou shalt haue labour wythoute fruyt. c1610 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) II. 13 That every barrel of good Ale hold and contain xv gallons, xiiij gallons of clear Ale, and one gallon for the rest. a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) i. ii. sig. B 4/2 The Queen had done me favour..To make my rest of life all holidayes. 1720 H. Carey Poems (ed. 2) 88 Here let me then forget the Noisy Town, My rest of Life with solid Pleasures crown. 1798 H. Brand Conflict iv. vii, in Plays & Poems 220 Grant me leave, to spend in solitude, My rest of days. 1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket ii. v. 39 I 'm sick of..the world, And gladly could groan out my rest of life Upon the dust this moment. 1906 F. Claiborne Simple Love 25 For the joys thou gavest me always, And for the rapture of my rest of days, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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