英语词汇“to be meat and drink to”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. figurative. A means of support or strength; a fundamental, core, or customary requirement, a precursor to anything; a source of enjoyment or gratification. Frequently (now chiefly) in to be meat and drink to: to be a source of support or pleasure to; to be a routine matter for.Frequently of spiritual nourishment, esp. in the Bible, e.g. John 4:32, 34, 1 Corinthians 3:2; see also strong meat n. at strong adj. Compounds 3.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] > be a source of intense enjoyment to

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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) xi. 6 Christusque nobis est cibus, potusque noster : & crist us sie mete & drync ur.

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John iv. 34 Meus cibus est ut faciam uoluntatem eius qui misit me : min mett is þætte ic doe uillo his seðe gesende mec.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 27 Þe þridde is for mete þat ilch man agh mid him to leden þan he sal of þesse liue faren.

a1325 St. Patrick (Corpus Cambr.) 616 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 106 (MED) Oure Louerd us vet ene Wiþ delicious metes of heuene.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John iv. 34 My mete is that I do the will of him that sente me.

1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) C j b/2 Obedyence is..the meete and comforte of all sayntes.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) vii. 5 Synful mannys lif is the deuels mete.

1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. Fiij^v It is meate and drinke to this childe to playe.

1611 Bible (King James) John iv. 32 I haue meate to eate that ye know not of.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. i. 10 It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clowne.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 20 Idlenes is the meate of lust.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 5 Petty-foggers, and their Meat and Drink, the Litigious.

1758 T. Turner Diary 23 Mar. (1984) (modernized text) 143 Reading and study..would in a manner be both meat and drink to me, were my circumstances but independent.

1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 51 To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

1927 C. Cullen Ballad of Brown Girl 9 O lovers never barter love For gold or fertile lands, For love is meat and love is drink, And love heeds love's commands.

1939 N. Marsh Overture to Death xxii. 254 I'm no psycho-analyst, but I imagine she'd be meat and drink to any one who was.

1977 Lancet 7 May 1018/1 Argument to him was meat and drink.

1992 Financial Times 11 Apr. 4/5 After their sub-standard performance, pollsters must be hoping there is no knock-on effect for the commercial market-research business that is meat and drink to most of them.

单词	to be meat and drink to
释义	> as lemmas to be meat and drink to b. figurative. A means of support or strength; a fundamental, core, or customary requirement, a precursor to anything; a source of enjoyment or gratification. Frequently (now chiefly) in to be meat and drink to: to be a source of support or pleasure to; to be a routine matter for.Frequently of spiritual nourishment, esp. in the Bible, e.g. John 4:32, 34, 1 Corinthians 3:2; see also strong meat n. at strong adj. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] > be a source of intense enjoyment to to be meat and drink to1533 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) xi. 6 Christusque nobis est cibus, potusque noster : & crist us sie mete & drync ur. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John iv. 34 Meus cibus est ut faciam uoluntatem eius qui misit me : min mett is þætte ic doe uillo his seðe gesende mec. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 27 Þe þridde is for mete þat ilch man agh mid him to leden þan he sal of þesse liue faren. a1325 St. Patrick (Corpus Cambr.) 616 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 106 (MED) Oure Louerd us vet ene Wiþ delicious metes of heuene. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John iv. 34 My mete is that I do the will of him that sente me. 1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) C j b/2 Obedyence is..the meete and comforte of all sayntes. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) vii. 5 Synful mannys lif is the deuels mete. 1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. Fiij^v It is meate and drinke to this childe to playe. 1611 Bible (King James) John iv. 32 I haue meate to eate that ye know not of. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. i. 10 It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clowne. View more context for this quotation 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 20 Idlenes is the meate of lust. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 5 Petty-foggers, and their Meat and Drink, the Litigious. 1758 T. Turner Diary 23 Mar. (1984) (modernized text) 143 Reading and study..would in a manner be both meat and drink to me, were my circumstances but independent. 1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 51 To find its meaning is my meat and drink. 1927 C. Cullen Ballad of Brown Girl 9 O lovers never barter love For gold or fertile lands, For love is meat and love is drink, And love heeds love's commands. 1939 N. Marsh Overture to Death xxii. 254 I'm no psycho-analyst, but I imagine she'd be meat and drink to any one who was. 1977 Lancet 7 May 1018/1 Argument to him was meat and drink. 1992 Financial Times 11 Apr. 4/5 After their sub-standard performance, pollsters must be hoping there is no knock-on effect for the commercial market-research business that is meat and drink to most of them. extracted from meatn. < as lemmas
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