单词 | to fall in love |
释义 | > as lemmasto fall (or †yfall, also †be taken, caught) in love a. to fall (or †yfall, also †be taken, caught) in love: to become enamoured; (in extended use) to become passionately attached to, dote on. Frequently with with (in Old English with genitive of person). Also in early use †to yfall (also be brought) into love's dance.With on in quot. OE cf. on prep. 23. [Compare classical Latin in amorem incidere, Middle French tomber en amour (1538; French tomber amoureux (1696)).] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love [verb (intransitive)] > fall in love to fall (or yfall, also be taken, caught) in loveOE to yfall (also be brought) into love's danceOE assot1393 in by the week1534 to have got it badly1860 to take a fall1942 OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) i. 2 Þa ða se fæder þohte hwam he hi mihte healicost forgifan, þa gefeol his agen mod on hyre lufe mid unrihtre gewilnunge [L. pater..incidit in amorem filiae suae]. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) xlv So ferr ifallyng into lufis dance. ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.v Than in to loues daunce we were brought. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlviii. 162 He was taken in loue. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 544/2 I shall fall in love with her. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. iv. 37 Locryne fell in great phancy and loue with a faire Damosell. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 63v Of which water who so drinketh shall be caught in loue. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. Argum. sig. E8v He sees her face; doth fall in loue, and soone from her depart. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xliii. 134 With the pleasantnesse of which, they were so taken in loue, that [etc.]. 1675 J. Bunyan Light for Them that sit in Darkness 171 Can you behold a Crucified Christ and not Bleed, and not Mourn, and not fall in Love with him? 1724 M. Davys Reform'd Coquet 165 You are the first Woman under Thirty that ever fell in love with a grey Beard. 1768 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 25 A young lady of fashion..has fallen in love with my cousin. 1785 E. Inchbald Appearance is against Them i. ii. 11 You are a fellow that falls in love with every face you see. 1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 7 The most wretchedly romantic youth that ever fell in love..and turned his face moonwards. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess iv. 31 John Niel was no chicken, nor very likely to fall in love with the first pretty face he met. 1928 Daily Express 21 Feb. 9/2 There is a suggestion that he has fallen in love with a ‘shiksa’ (a Christian girl). 1969 E. Cleaver Post-prison Writings 23 I fell in love with the Black Panther Party immediately upon my first encounter with it. 1999 S. Orbach Impossibility of Sex (2000) 170 She feared that Charles and Maria would really hit if off; they would fall in love again, want to keep the baby, shut her out. < as lemmas |
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