| 单词 | seven days and seven nights |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseven days and seven nights 1. In poetic and literary use: a week; often as the type of a long (and arduous) period of time. Also in seven days and seven nights and variants.In quot. a1470 as a count noun; cf. sennight n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [noun] weekeOE sennightOE seven daysOE weekOE seven days and seven nightsOE (an) eight daysc1160 a week of daysa1382 week1398 sennight dayc1425 septimane1450 seventh night1567 sennight space1599 hebdomad1600 septuary1646 heptad1876 the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time seven daysOE a while1297 dreichc1440 dreightc1450 yearsa1470 age1577 week1597 montha1616 patriarch's age1693 length1697 eternity1700 a month of Sundays1759 a week of Sundays1822 a week of Saturdays1831 dog's age1833 forever1833 while1836 aeon1880 donkey's years1916 light year1929 yonks1968 OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. viii. 53 Ic þe halsie þurh þone, þe þu to færst, þæt ic ne þurfe libban seofon dagas æfter þe on þysum middangearde. OE Homily: Invention of Cross (Auct. F.4.32) in M.-C. Bodden Old Eng. Finding of True Cross 85 Þa bebead seo cwen Elena þæt hine man name and sette on ænne diopne seað.., and þa wunode he þær seofan dagas & seofan niht. c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) l. 53 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 2 With-oute mete and drinke þare seue dawes he lay. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 162 They..rode day be day well-nye a seven dayes or they founde ony aventure. 1611 Bible (King James) Job ii. 13 They sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights. 1689 C. Goodall Poems & Transl. 43 Seven days are past, since I beheld thy face. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iv, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 23 Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse. 1857 C. Heavysege Saul 38 Seven days I waited,—ay, till the skirts o' the term Had disappeared. 1962 P. Goodman Lordly Hudson 125 Now where is he, whose boyish beauty could quiet lust for seven days? 2020 Irish Times (Nexis) 12 May 14 The Glorpyens could not pry themselves away. They sat there for seven days and seven nights. < as lemmas |
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