| 单词 | beyond retrieval |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeyond (also past, without) retrieval beyond (also past, without) retrieval: to the extent that recovery is no longer possible. Cf. retrieve n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy helpc1000 healinga1225 remedy?c1225 bote of beam1330 recurec1330 recoverera1375 remeida1413 redemption?a1439 botmenta1450 recurementc1450 presidy?a1475 mendsa1525 repair1612 relief1616 booty beam1642 beyond retrieve1658 beyond retrieval1697 1697 D. Jones Contin. Secret Hist. White-Hall xxix. 76 Were you to have seen the Consternation men generally were under in this City..you would have thought all France had been in danger of being lost without retrieval. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 294 Ruin'd beyond Retrieval. 1750 H. Fielding Author's Farce (new ed.) i. v, in Wks. I. 16 Matrimony clenches Ruin beyond Retrieval. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. iii. 212 And so the Teutsch Ritters are sunk beyond retrieval. 1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) V. 368 The Duke of Somerset had neglected the debts of the realm till they were past retrieval. 1878 Calcutta Rev. 66 469 The battle, just before so nearly won, was lost without retrieval. 1902 A. J. Butler Arab Conquest of Egypt 337 The military position was by no means past retrieval. 1966 Word Study Dec. 4/1 Dubious meaning..starts a snowballing that soon places the intended meaning beyond retrieval. 1996 D. Lowenthal Heritage Crusade & Spoils of Hist. v. 106 The actual past is beyond retrieval; all we have left are much-eroded traces and partial records filtered through divers eyes and minds. < as lemmas |
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