| 单词 | rain or shine |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(come) rain or shine a. Sunshine, esp. as opposed to rain; hence, fine weather. Also, moonlight. Also figurative phr. (come) rain or shine, in any circumstances, come what may. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine sunOE sun gleamc1225 sunlightc1275 sunshinea1325 sun-shiningc1400 sunningc1595 shine1622 sun gold1868 ray1957 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [noun] > sunny weather shine1622 the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [phrase] > come what may fall what can (also may, will) fallc1225 avalȝe que valȝe1487 fall back, fall edge?1553 blow high, blow low1774 and chance the ducks1874 (come) rain or shine1905 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. N3 Or shine, or raine, or Blow, I, my Resolutions know. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §9 Heat and Cold, Shine and Rain. 1828 S. T. Coleridge Christabel (rev. ed.) i, in Poet. Wks. II. 43 Ever and aye, by shine and shower. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons II. x. iv. 170 A ceremony which, every night, shine or dark, he insisted upon punctiliously performing. 1888 W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 113 Come storm, come shine, whatever befall. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lv. 84 And the youth at morning shine Makes the vow he will not keep. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill vi. 138 With me you're first, rain or shine. 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 1076/2 These overcoats do double service, being adapted for all kinds of chilly weather, rain or shine. 1952 M. R. Rinehart Swimming Pool vii. 54 She walks everywhere here in the city, rain or shine. 1978 M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 115 He said..we'd got to put up with each other for ten years, ‘come rain or shine’. < as lemmas |
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