| 单词 | best-trained |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbest-trained (i) Combining with participles with the sense ‘in the best way or manner, to the highest standard, excellently’ to form adjectives, as best-aimed, best-bred, best-built, best-considered, best-cultivated, best-established, best-grounded, best-made, best-managed, best-moving, best-performing, best-preserved, best-trained, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately at Compounds 1a(a)(ii). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > in proper order > kept in best order bestc1330 best-kept1577 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1154 Mi loue no schaltow haue..Er þou perles holden be & best doand in þis cuntre. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 224 Oon of the beste farynge man on lyue. c1453 Brut (Harl. 53) 564 (MED) He was countet and hold þe best-nurturet man of Englond. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 42 Iason was more and more in the grace of the ladyes, For the best born the most fayre the best accomplisshed..fyxed their loue in hym. c1484 J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 198 (MED) Þe best-dysposid men..be of mene statur, with blake eyn and blake her..and vppryght statur. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 29 We single you, As our best mouing faire soliciter. View more context for this quotation 1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley iv. i. sig. G2 Ile neuer come but when her best stitcht hat, Her Bowgle gowne and best wrought smock is on. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 3 May (1974) VIII. 198 The Duke of York's chamber..is one of the noblest and best-proportioned rooms. 1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Shouldred-head (a term in Archery) the best made Heads of an Arrow..being..made with shoulders. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 18 Mar. 2/1 He gives Plates for the best performing Horse..for him that trots best,..for the best Walker. 1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) V. lxx. 253 Multitudes struck with the best-grounded terror. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 10 Counter to the clearest best-established principles of reason. 1785 A. Young Ann. Agric. 111 The best cultivated counties would even be benefited, were county-farms established on a great scale. 1791 W. Taplin Gentleman's Stable Directory II. 18 The best bred blood stock, now in the highest and most incredible state of cultivation. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 148 In her best-aim'd blow Victorious Murder a blind Suicide. 1845 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. 133 The best considered efforts have often failed. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 384 The prizes given..for the best regulated farms. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 69 The best-preserved human skulls. 1880 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 243 It is a peculiarity of American frame-buildings to have all the improvements of the best-built stone houses in Europe. 1920 Harvey's Weekly 5 June 4/1 Senator Knox is the best-equipped all-around international statesman. 1955 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 215/1 Even in the best-ordered homes, someone occasionally spills tea, coffee, ink or soup. 1973 V. Teresa & T. C. Renner My Life in Mafia i. 5 G Block was considered the toughest block in the prison, but it was the best-run block of all. 1992 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 Nov. a5/2 The company has long had a reputation as being one of the best-managed in the U.S. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Jan. (Front section) 10/2 He had built one of the best-organized, best-trained bush armies in Africa. < as lemmas |
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