单词 | to be hatching |
释义 | > as lemmasto be (a) hatching c. intransitive. Of a plan, plot, etc.: to come or be brought into being or to full development. Chiefly in to be (a) hatching. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > be in preparation brewa1400 to be makingc1515 hatch1595 1595 A. Fletcher Certaine Similies sig. Y2v/1 Sathan doth keepe a continual siege against all vertue, to kill it, if he can, euen when it is a hatching in the hart of man. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 56 Belike some Desperate Treacherie is hatching, wherewith this Boutifeaux is acquainted. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 85 Who finds his warme heart, hatcht into a nest Of little Eagles, and young Loves. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Neh. ii. 2) 46 Treason hatching in his heart. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. ii. 140 The great dangers and plots, that were now hatching against the State. 1783 London Mag. Aug. 129/1 A man that writes verse, whilst his thoughts are a hatching, Has intervals frequent of musing and scratching. 1834 Mirror of Lit. 4 Oct. 229/2 Hassan, who little dreamt of what was hatching, came home from his shop in unusual gaiety. 1873 F. I. Ouvry Hubert Montreuil xii. 167 Who knows what plot is hatching among his crew? 1902 Jrnl Educ. May 344/1 A widespread conspiracy was hatching amongst the Ionian Greeks. 1973 N. de Lange tr. A. Oz Elsewhere, Perhaps xxvii. 235 Others claimed that a sordid scheme was hatching in his mind. 1994 Third Force 30 Aug. 22 (heading) A plan hatches at Yale. 2015 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 23 Oct. a36 He also pushes him into a plot that's been hatching for some time. < as lemmas |
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