| 单词 | ready to one's grasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasready to one's grasp c. within (one's) grasp: close enough to admit of being grasped. Similarly ready to one's grasp. beyond one's grasp: out of one's reach. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > conveniently near at one's fingers' (also finger) ends1528 bain?a1700 within (one's) grasp1703 the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [phrase] > beyond one's powers to do or attain above one's thumb1766 above one's bend1835 no can do1868 beyond one's grasp1871 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 392 They look'd upon it [York] as their own, and had it even within their grasp. 1803 J. Bristed Ανθρωπλανομενος I. 296 No inducement could prevail upon me to trust myself within the grasp of this amorous Bacchante. 1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 63/2 Had volume the second of that same folio with which he [sc. Dr. Johnson] floored Osborn, happened to lie ready to the prostrate man's grasp, nobody can suppose [etc.]. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 27 He was restoring lands most of which were quite beyond his grasp. < as lemmas |
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