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单词 beast of the field
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beast of the field
b. In the genitive, with reference to (esp. uncultivated) plants which grow in open ground, animals which graze upon it, etc. (in later use chiefly in flower of the field, beast of the field). Now somewhat archaic.
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eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) vi. 10 Þonne weaxeð hraðe feldes blostman, fægen þæt hi moton.
OE Lambeth Psalter xxxvi. 2 Quemadmodum olera herbarum cito decident : swaswa wyrta felda uel blæda wyrtena hwætlice hi feallaþ uel hreosað.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9225 Itt wass huniȝ off þe feld.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) viii. 7 (MED) Alle shepe and nete and also þe bestes of þe felde.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vi. 28 Beholde ȝe the lilies of the feelde, how thei wexen.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cii. 14 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 234 (MED) Man, his daies ere als hai, Als blome ofe felde sal he welyen awai.
c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 182 Swete brede wythouten soure dowgh es necessarys, wyth letusez of the felde [L. lactucis agrestibus].
1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye xl. sig. K.iij That euery man is but grasse: and all their gloriouse beutye is lyke a flower of the felde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. iii. A The serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 337 Each Plant of the field, which e're it was in the Earth God made. View more context for this quotation
a1668 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1839) 86 It was just with God..to turn his majesty to grass, to have his dwelling, and intercommoning with the beasts of the field.
1745 J. Grigg Young Chevalier 17 The Grass of the Field, which itself rises for but a Summer.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iii. 56 Methinks the seat of our family looks like Noah's ark, as if the chief part on't were designed for the fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field.
1845 Nonconformist 5 312 The stupidest of the browsers of the field.
1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 605 What is there about the Milkweed which gives it an advantage over the other plants of the field?
1921 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 11 251 She [sc. Artemis] was the patroness rather of wild beasts of the field..than of agricultural or domesticated animals.
1958 S. Beckett Endgame 42 She was bonny once, like a flower of the field.
2008 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 15 July (Metro section) 13 Compassion distinguishes us from the beasts of the field.
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