| 单词 | purpose-work |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurpose-work C1. General attributive, in the sense ‘done, made, etc., with a purpose or aim’, as purpose-episode, purpose journey, purpose-work etc., nouns. ΚΠ 1767 T. Percy Let. 15 Jan. in Percy Lett. (1946) II. 129 I will introduce you to my Lady Dutchess's Grand assembly..which it were worth a purpose-Journey to see. 1820 J. Clare Let. 4 May (1985) 60 He made a purpose journey to see me. 1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 177 The direction of the purpose-work of the hero. 1900 F. H. Stoddard Evol. Eng. Novel 188 It is not..the purpose-episodes in the novels of Dickens that are the strongest pages. 1968 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 31 662 It is difficult to believe in the ‘small anthropological collection relating to Africa’..becoming the object of a purpose journey to Bloomington, Indiana. < as lemmas |
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