请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 between two waters
释义

> as lemmas

between (also betwixt) two waters
b. between (also betwixt) two waters: (a) confronted by a choice between two parties or points of view (and hence either reluctant to choose or inclined to adopt a neutral position); (b) between the surface and the bottom (of a body of water). Obsolete.Recorded earliest in to swim between two waters at swim v. 1b. [After Middle French entre deux eaus (14th cent.; especially in nager entre deux eaus to swim between two waters at swim v. 1b).]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > neither one nor the other [phrase]
between two waters1553
betwixt and between1832
the world > the earth > water > body of water > [phrase] > between the surface and bottom
between two waters1660
1553 R. Horne tr. J. Calvin Certaine Homilies i. sig. Cvij They yt swim (as ye common saing is) betwixt twoo waters [Fr. ceulx qui nagent entre deux eaues] alleage [etc.].
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount ii. f. 52v Make it [sc. the mixture] so stronge that it may beare a newe laide egge swimminge betwene two waters [Fr. nageant entre deux eaus].
1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. iii. f. 79v Bicause it was but suspition and no proofe..he stode betweene two waters, as he that was verie loth to beleeue it.
1603 D. Carleton in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) I. 28 The king held himself upright betwixt two waters.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 3 Sliding the Anchor on one side betwixt two waters [Fr. entre deux eaux].
1794 R. Nowland tr. P. de Beauvais-Raseau Treat. Indigo vi. 41 The excess of putrefaction is always distinguished by a wide and flat grain, which remains floating between two waters and does not sink well to the bottom.
1847 E. Cresy Encycl. Civil Engin. I. xvii. 1153 If the specific gravity be equal to that of water, it will..rest between two waters.
extracted from watern.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/11 20:11:31