| 单词 | the troubles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe troubles b. the troubles, the Troubles. Any of various rebellions, civil wars, and periods of conflict in Ireland, spec. in 1919–23 and (in Northern Ireland) from the late 1960s until the ‘Good Friday’ Agreement of 10 April 1998. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > civil war > specific civil war1712 the troubles1786 English Civil War1794 Wars of the Roses1809 the late unpleasantness1866 War between the States1867 Spanish Civil War1936 Spanish War1937 a1676 B. Whitlocke Mem. Eng. Affairs (1682) 410/1 Mr. Peters the Minister, was arrived in Dublin, and that at the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland, he had a Brigade against the Rebels.] 1786 J. Curry Hist. & Crit. Rev. Civil Wars Irel. xi. 232 Sir Robert Talbot of Castle-Talbot, in the county of Wicklow, repaired to Dublin, in the beginning of the troubles. 1831 J. Hardiman Irish Minstrelsy II. Notes 150 The opening of the first stanza describes the peaceable state of the country before the troubles, when a portentous calm prevailed. 1873 T. N. Burke Irel. & Irish 41 In the year 1798, the ‘year of the troubles’. as we may well call it, some ninety Wexford men..made their last stand on the banks of the river Boyne. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 109 Troubles, the, the Irish rebellion of 1641. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 231 Times of the troubles... Somewhere here Lord Edward Fitzgerald escaped from major Sirr. 1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 661/3 A weak Government.., a new wave of nationalist exaltation, an untrained army of youths brought up on war rations..—these factors were sufficient to account for the troubles of 1919–21. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 235 The ruins of a police barracks, built to command the road through the valley, burnt in the troubles,..were one green with the grass. 1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited vi. 57 ‘This was where Michael Dwyer was in keeping during the Troubles,’ Mackey vouchsafed. (‘In keeping’ means being on the run.) 1959 Listener 2 July 32/1 The complicated political and personal passions inspired by ‘the troubles’. 1968 M. Collis Somerville & Ross xxv. 258 As the Troubles were over more than ten years before [1936], how came it that Admiral Boyle, living in quiet retirement and much liked by high and low, was singled out? 1981 M. Kenyon Zigzag i. 6 Before the new Troubles..he had fallen in love with romantic Ireland. the Troubles b. the troubles, the Troubles. Any of various rebellions, civil wars, and periods of conflict in Ireland, spec. in 1919–23 and (in Northern Ireland) from the late 1960s until the ‘Good Friday’ Agreement of 10 April 1998. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > civil war > specific civil war1712 the troubles1786 English Civil War1794 Wars of the Roses1809 the late unpleasantness1866 War between the States1867 Spanish Civil War1936 Spanish War1937 a1676 B. Whitlocke Mem. Eng. Affairs (1682) 410/1 Mr. Peters the Minister, was arrived in Dublin, and that at the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland, he had a Brigade against the Rebels.] 1786 J. Curry Hist. & Crit. Rev. Civil Wars Irel. xi. 232 Sir Robert Talbot of Castle-Talbot, in the county of Wicklow, repaired to Dublin, in the beginning of the troubles. 1831 J. Hardiman Irish Minstrelsy II. Notes 150 The opening of the first stanza describes the peaceable state of the country before the troubles, when a portentous calm prevailed. 1873 T. N. Burke Irel. & Irish 41 In the year 1798, the ‘year of the troubles’. as we may well call it, some ninety Wexford men..made their last stand on the banks of the river Boyne. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 109 Troubles, the, the Irish rebellion of 1641. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 231 Times of the troubles... Somewhere here Lord Edward Fitzgerald escaped from major Sirr. 1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 661/3 A weak Government.., a new wave of nationalist exaltation, an untrained army of youths brought up on war rations..—these factors were sufficient to account for the troubles of 1919–21. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 235 The ruins of a police barracks, built to command the road through the valley, burnt in the troubles,..were one green with the grass. 1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited vi. 57 ‘This was where Michael Dwyer was in keeping during the Troubles,’ Mackey vouchsafed. (‘In keeping’ means being on the run.) 1959 Listener 2 July 32/1 The complicated political and personal passions inspired by ‘the troubles’. 1968 M. Collis Somerville & Ross xxv. 258 As the Troubles were over more than ten years before [1936], how came it that Admiral Boyle, living in quiet retirement and much liked by high and low, was singled out? 1981 M. Kenyon Zigzag i. 6 Before the new Troubles..he had fallen in love with romantic Ireland. < as lemmas |
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