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单词 to be a-making
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to be a-making
(b) to be a-making (in same sense). Now chiefly regional.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase]
to be in making?a1425
to be a-making1492
in the making1644
on the stocks1669
1492 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 660 Hys tentys and alys be a-makyng faste and many of them be made.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxx. 143 Ther they brake all [the bridge] to peaces that had been longe a makynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. i. 23 All the prestes prayed, whyle the sacrifice was a makynge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 33 The Feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making. View more context for this quotation
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 15 The state or condition of Matter before the World was a-making, which is compendiously exprest by the word Chaos.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxiv. 44 The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making..were a sublime music to him.
1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 363 Were the pearl-gray stone a-cap that cap a penlight, it would beam just abaft the penman's shoulder and illuminate whoever looks thereover at these sentences a-making.
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