| 单词 | the wilds of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe wilds of (b) plural. (Chiefly in the wilds of a specified region.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] westerneOE weste landOE wastinea1175 westec1175 wastec1200 wildernc1200 wildernessc1200 wildernessc1230 warlottc1290 forestc1320 wastyc1325 deserta1398 wastern?a1400 wildnessa1513 the wilds of1600 vastness1605 vastacy1607 roughet1616 wild1637 wildland1686 bush1780 wastage1823 mesquite1834 wasteland1887 mulga1896 virgin bush1905 boondock1944 boonies1954 virgin land1955 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 41 The Hircanion deserts, and the vastie wildes Of wide Arabia. View more context for this quotation 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 The sandie Wyldes of spicefull Barbarie. 1637 J. Milton Comus 15 Huge forrests,..And sandie perillous wilds. a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 126 in Compl. Wks. (1731) They call them the good People, and say they live in Wilds and Forests. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie i The..resolute forester who first penetrated the wilds. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 307 Among the wilds and forests of the west. 1868 J. T. Nettleship Ess. Browning's Poetry ii. 63 A northern principality..which kept its rough simple traditions in its own wilds. < as lemmas |
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