| 单词 | on the brink of the grave |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the brink of the grave 1. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, such as one might fall over, e.g. the ‘brink’ of a precipice, chasm, pit, ditch, grave. on the brink of the grave (figurative): near death. [This is the specific current sense, which now also affects the use of sense 2, and entirely colours the figurative use in sense 5; but it is doubtful whether the first two quotations do not rather belong to sense 2.] ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > of something steep brinka1300 edgec1400 pit-brink1571 overgoing1634 the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > dying deadlyc893 swelting?a1400 dyingc1450 at (the) utterance1525 in (the, his) extremes1551 parting1562 Acherontic1597 ending1600 departing1603 on one's last legs1614 expiring1635 mortifying1649 morient1679 upon one's last stretch1680 gasping1681 à la mort1700 moribund1721 outward-bound1809 terminal1854 on the brink of the grave1872 defunctive1929 a1300 Ancr. R. 242 Þe horse þet is scheouh, and blencheð uor one scheadewe upo þe heie brugge, and falleð adun into þe watere of þe heie brugge [MS. Titus D. xviii. brinke]. c1386 G. Chaucer Merch. T. 157 I am hoor and old, And almost at [v.r. on] my pittes brinke. ?a1400 Chester Pl. 68 Your owine childe for to spill Upon this hilles brinke? c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 384 Vche a dale so depe þat demmed at þe brynkez. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 150 And caste hir eyen downward fro the Brynke [v.r. brinke, brenke]. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 241 Of this deepe pit..I haue no strength to plucke thee to the brinck . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 918 The warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while. View more context for this quotation 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §148. 173 He shall come to the Brink of a Precipice. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxix. 355 Upon the brink of the cleanly-separated fissures. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 198 Tottering on the brink of the grave. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 170 The church..is now on the very brink of the cliff. < as lemmas |
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