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单词 to bid a truce
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to bid a truce
b. To proclaim, declare, threaten (war). Obsolete. Preserved in to bid a truce (in figurative sense).
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society > armed hostility > war > wage (war) [verb (transitive)] > declare (war)
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1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 49 Now is Eilred biried, þat mykelle wo beade [printed bade].
β. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades i. 155 I was not injur'd so By any Trojan, that my powers should bid them any blows.1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. B4 I bid you sudden warres.1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. iii. 206 At this late hour, When even I shall bid a truce to thought.
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