单词 | springtime day |
释义 | > as lemmasspringtime day General attributive (chiefly in sense 1), as springtime day, springtime sun, springtime weather, etc.In quot. 1561 with reference to the constellation Taurus. ΚΠ 1561 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Hercules Furens iv. sig. J7 Of spryng tyme bull he wyll Bothe seeke, and breake the neckes at once. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. A*.iiii My yeares be great I wyl be gone, for spryngtyme nyghts be colde. 1603 A. Munday tr. F. Citois True Hist. Mayden of Confolens f. 16v Frogs..are reuiued againe at the comming of the Spring-time waters. 1669 tr. O. Croll Treat. Signatures Internal Things 36 in tr. O. Croll Bazilica Chymica (1670) The benefit of the Spring-time-Sun. 1795 A. B. Cristall Poet. Sketches 147 Spring-time walks, which flowers perfum'd. 1838 E. B. Barrett Lett. to M. R. Mitford (1983) I. 6 Overleaning them this springtime day. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xliv. 329 The old lady..was hailed with a chorus of ‘Cuckoo!’ by the multitude, one half of which ran after the coach..shouting forth the spring-time call. 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field xlviii. 280 It was during the spring-time empire of water, that the Great Lakes stood at the high levels described. 1903 E. W. Champney Romance Bourbon Châteaux viii. 336 The girl will speedily outgrow her springtime beauty. 1935 Jewish Q. Rev. 26 1 It has been demonstrated that tennis owes its origin to ancient Egyptian spring-time rites. 2016 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 9 May 5 Spain's Costa del Sol is suffering some of its worst springtime weather in years. < as lemmas |
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