单词 | to fall to the lot of |
释义 | > as lemmasto fall to (also †in) the lot of (a person) c. to fall to (also †in) the lot of (a person) and variants. extracted from lotn. (a) Of goods, property, etc.: to be assigned by lot to (a person), esp. as a share of an inheritance. Now archaic and rare. ΚΠ ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 58 (MED) Þat cuntree es called Galilea Gentium, and it fell in þe lote of Zabulon and of Neptalim. 1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xvi. f. 80 Demetrius also, yelded to him thother part of Macedone that fell to the lot of his sonne in law Antipater. 1695 J. Stevens tr. M. de Faria y Sousa Portugues Asia I. iv. vii. 392 These Princes came to a Composition, parting the Territory of that City, which fell to the Lot of Hidalcam. 1722 Mem. Lit. (ed. 2) V. lxxii. 412 The King kept for himself the most considerable Lands: Others fell to the Lot of the Officers, in Proportion to their Services. 1834 R. M. Bird Calavar II. xix. 156 A daughter of the lord of Colhuacan..had fallen to the lot of Alvarado. a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1857) 3rd Ser. vii. 92 When the revenues of a cathedral or a cure fell to the lot of a monastery. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 304 The primacy fell to the lot of Sigeric, Bishop of Ramsbury. 1901 Jerseyman Nov. 27/1 Another 111 acres went to his daughter Hannah..and the remainder, 278 acres, fell to the lot of his son Hendrick. 1986 A. T. Tibi tr. Abd Allāh Ibn Buluggīn Tibyān ii. 46 Elvira fell to Zawl's lot, while Iznajar and Jaen fell to the lot of Habus, his brother's son—my grandfather. (b) Of a condition, situation, task, etc.: to be assigned to (a person) by fate or chance or (occasionally) by the drawing of lots. Frequently with it as anticipatory subject and to-infinitive as complement. ΚΠ 1553 R. Burrant in tr. Preceptes Cato (new ed.) sig. M.iiiiv He knoweth that it maie aswel fal to his lotte to be in the same daunger. 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 179 Therefore let vs make triall, to whose Lot it shal befall to beare the swaie. 1657 H. Crompton Poems 106 Let it fall to your lot to be plung'd in the pot; And suffer your brains to be sacked with drinking. 1709 R. Gould Wks. II. 302 Happiest Thou! whose Lot it will befall To reach that State without being Criminal. 1759 H. Montgomery Let. 9 Aug. in J. W. Fortescue Following Drum (1931) ii. 34 The ground attack..fell to the lott of the 6 English Regts of Foot. 1799 R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 196 Agnes..enjoyed a greater portion of real bliss than in general falls to the lot of mortals. 1808 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1959) III. 85 But his countenance is far more intelligent, than ordinarily falls to the Lot of us Devonshire Dumplins. 1873 H. E. Roscoe in Owens Coll. Ess. & Addr. (1874) 56 Experiments on the properties of vanadium..made with much larger quantities than it fell to the lot of the Swedish chemist to work with. 1977 F. C. Koch Volga Germans (1978) iii. 60 It fell to the lot of the housewives and daughters to care for this aspect of the farm economy. 2001 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 5 Jan. a15 It falls to my lot to review quite a number of books written by academics. < as lemmas |
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