| 单词 | spring and fall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspring and fall spring and fall n. the season of spring and the season of autumn; (as adverb) during these seasons; also figurative, with reference to the contrasting nature of these seasons. Now rare (poetic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > contrariety [phrase] > the two sides or one thing and its opposite chalk1393 cross and pilec1450 spring and fall1578 light and shade1733 1578 W. Darell Short Disc. Life Seruingmen sig. E.ivv There is nothing but it hath a spring and a fal, a Winter and a Summer, an ebbe and a flowe. 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xl. 277 Especially the spring and fall craue this emptying at large. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 171 So great oddes there is betweene the Spring and Fall of Fortune. c1680 E. Hickeringill Hist. Whiggism in Wks. (1716) I. ii. 153 Parliaments are to sit frequently... I do not say, as often as you take Physick (Spring and Fall at least). 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xix. 163 This disease..in some horses shews itself spring and fall. 1764 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 354 I do not wonder that any studious man should in England want physic at Spring and Fall. 1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther i. 10 She has been bled and purged, spring and fall. 1850 J. Montgomery Poet. Wks. 363 The blade, the stem, the bud, the flower.., Like day and night, like spring and fall, Alternate, on the abbey-wall. 1909 E. W. Wilcox Poems of Progress 173 Dawn and sunset, Spring and Fall, Held raptures for her, one and all. 1991 A. Atik Offshore 35 Spring and fall, dune and lawn on different hangers. < as lemmas |
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