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单词 to be sent
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to be sent (into the world)
f. to be sent (into the world): said of a child as born for some divine purpose, or as a gift to the parents. Cf. sense 7.
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c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxvi. 22 By syn maternall I am send, With vyce I vaneiss.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 20 I that am..sent before my time Into this breathing world. View more context for this quotation
1831 W. Scott Count Robert ix, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 224 Being the only child..and sent late in life to bless their marriage bed.
1839 W. M. Thackeray Stubbs's Cal. Nov. Comic Tales (1841) II. 360 I..wore my red coat as naturally as if I had been sent into the world only for the purpose of being a letter-carrier.
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