| 单词 | to be bought and sold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be bought and sold a. transitive. With a person or as person's life as object; esp. (in early use) to seal the fate of (a person); to treat (a person's life) as forfeit; (later chiefly) to betray for a bribe. Chiefly in passive, as to be bought and sold. ΚΠ c1330 Roland & Vernagu (Auch.) (1882) l. 838 Smite ich eft on siþe Þi liif is bouȝt & seld. c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 59 Quod desteine, ‘he is bouȝt & solde;’ Quod deeþ, ‘his eende make schal we.’ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 35 Dickon thy master is bought and sould . View more context for this quotation 1633 J. Ford Loues Sacrifice iv. sig. I3v My Lord you are vndone... Lost; and I feare your life is bought and sold. 1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 644 We're bought and sold for English gold. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Ringlet 33 She that gave you's bought and sold. 1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 142 The teachers who had taken Clive's on-your-bike homilies at face value got angry when they discovered how they'd been bought and sold. < as lemmas |
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