| 单词 | to cleave one's way through |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cleave one's way through c. To pierce and penetrate (air, water, etc.). Also to cleave one's way through. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > sharply cleave1558 cuta1571 harrow1582 divide1590 1558 [see γ. forms]. 1651 [see γ. forms]. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 435 At their passing cleave the Assyrian flood. View more context for this quotation 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 8 The fierce Eagle cleaves the liquid Sky. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ix. 447 Cleaving with my prows The waves of Hellespont. 1827 T. Carlyle Richter in Edinb. Rev. June 188 Whose wailings..have..cleft the general ear. 1852 W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson Life & Epist. St. Paul I. ix. 307 The vessel..would soon cleave her way through the strait. 1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 97 No sunbeam cleaves the twilight. < as lemmas |
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