| 单词 | to fan into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fan into (slumber) a. with the object or effect of cooling. Also to fan into (slumber). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > cool > by driving a current of air on fana1616 air-cool1909 the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > freshen (air) [verb (transitive)] > supply with fresh air or ventilate > fan fana1616 flabel1653 befan1674 punkah1825 a1616 Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 50 The Norweyan Banners flowt the skie, And fanne our people cold. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures viii. 23 He made one of his followers to fan me with a ventilow for to refresh me. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 80. ⁋3 Fanned into Slumbers by successive Hands of them [Slaves]. 1725 G. Berkeley Proposal in Wks. (1871) III. 221 The air in Bermuda is perpetually fanned and kept cool by sea-breezes. 1820 Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 62 Where Arno's stream..still doth fan Itself with dancing bulrush. 1832 Tennyson Eleänore in Poems (new ed.) 25 Thy bounteous forehead was not fanned With breezes from our oaken glades. 1863 M. Oliphant Doctor's Fam. Mrs. Fred..took up her handkerchief and..began to fan her..cheeks. < as lemmas |
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