| 单词 | the prints |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe (public) prints a. A printed publication; esp. a printed sheet, a newspaper. In later use chiefly in plural. the (public) prints: the press. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > [noun] print1570 journal1743 society > communication > journalism > journal > [noun] > generally the prints1570 press1649 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. Aij Will they prouoke him, by worde and Print. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 33 A Psalme of mercy in a miscreant print. 1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 108 The English letters came not till last evning and soe late as I could not see the prints, but heare they conteyne little. 1689 R. Atkyns Lord Russel's Innocency Further Defended 11 It is that Point which the Answerer's first Print, viz. his Antidote against Poyson, did not mention. 1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus Seven New Colloquies 8 When a thing is lost, they don't put it in the publick Prints, as we doe; but fix a Printed Paper on the Wall. 1727 J. Swift Horace Imitated in J. Swift Misc. Last Vol. ii. 40 Inform us, will the emp'ror treat? Or, do the prints and papers lye? 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. ii I believe, Mr. Puff, I have often admired your talents in the daily prints. 1800 Times 2 Jan. 2/4 We cannot invoke too seriously the public reprobation upon the information constantly conveyed by means of some of the daily prints to our enemy. 1828 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales in C. M. H. Clark Select Documents Austral. Hist. (1950) viii. 435 Partly on account of..any but a very few ever having access to the English prints,..the affairs of the mother country soon became..of no interest. 1871 J. Morley Condorcet in Crit. Misc. (1878) 52 The freedom of the press, the multitude of the public prints, were all so many insurmountable barriers against a French Cromwell. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Dec. 470/3 Of course, the Government prints take in each case the opposite view. 1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) iv. 80 A few names, if sufficiently in the public prints, naturally did stick. 1973 Daily Tel. 30 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 7/2 The popular prints are interested in Parliament only when something dramatic blows up, or when an MP..makes an ass of himself. 2002 Chicago Tribune 13 Jan. i. 18/1 To read the public prints of late, you would conclude that America has a new president. < as lemmas |
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