| 单词 | the prime of life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe prime of life b. The period or state of greatest perfection or vigour in life, after immaturity and before physical decline sets in. Frequently in the prime of life. in one's prime: at one's peak; similarly past one's prime.Sometimes distinguished from sense 8, as in †prime of middle age. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun] flowering agec1400 pridec1475 blooming-time1495 flower?1507 season?1507 day1546 flourishing years?1555 golden years1559 vigour1563 consistent age1574 prime1574 May moon1576 acme1579 Maya1586 flourish1597 May month1600 consistencea1613 May morna1616 constant age1620 high daya1625 blouth1643 flourishing age1737 heyday1751 floruit1843 bloom-hour1850 blossom-time1860 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. Ciij This age of Consistence is the very flowre and prime of a mans life. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 385 In yonger men it is faster, in the prime of our age more rare and hollow. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 170 When he is past his Prime; his Vigour is perpetually wearing off. c1718 M. Prior Ladle 80 The honest farmer and his wife, To years declin'd from prime of life. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) v. 498 Nought treads so silent as the foot of time; Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime. 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 19 A Woman in the road I met, Not old, though something past her prime. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights ii, in Poems 49 A goodly time, For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Calderon i The king was yet in the prime of middle age. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xix. 223 He was still in the prime of life, not more than four and forty. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes iv. 46 Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule. 1937 V. Woolf Years 255 I'm young, he thought; I'm in the prime of life. 2000 D. W. Anderson More Than Merkle 43 Joss was cut down in his prime by illness. < as lemmas |
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