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单词 boxed-up
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boxed-up
C1. With adverbs, corresponding to phrasal verbs at box v.2, as in boxed-in, boxed-up.
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1817 Philos. Mag. & Jrnl. 50 290 The mechanism is boxed-in and secure from all external injury.
1828 J. A. B. Beaumont Trav. Buenos Ayres vi. 133 Women seldom travel there, when they do, if they be of the higher class, they purchase coaches; if of the gaucho order, they ride in a boxed-up seat sideways.
1850 Engineer & Machinist Aug. 186/1 From the end of this beam a perforated bucket is suspended through a boxed-in space.
1865 J. D. Burn Three Years among Working-classes in U.S. 254 It is often dangerous for a person with boxed-up notions to try the experiment of letting them loose in company.
1921 E. Ferber Girls (1935) iv. 59 The house was thought a grand affair, with its tin bathtub and boxed-in wash-bowl on the second floor.
1960 Times 16 Sept. 16/7 The acoustics of the theatre..giving a boxed-in sound to the score.
1992 B. Coote Trade Trap xi. 142 The highway.along which the boxed-up fruit is transported for export.
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 56/4 Porter is as sympathetic to the men who find themselves in boxed-in conditions as she is to the women.
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