| 单词 | to have climbed may hill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have climbed May hill May hill n. [possibly with allusion to May Hill as a local name, widespread in England] now poetic and British regional the month of May regarded as a potential time of crisis for those in ill health; esp. in to have climbed May hill. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > continue in life [verb (intransitive)] > live through most risky part of year healthwise to have climbed May hill1619 1619 J. Chamberlain Let. 2 Jan. (1939) II. 197 We cannot be out of feare till we see her past the top of May-hill. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Derb. 230 Whereas, in our remembrance, Ale went out when Swallows came in..it now hopeth (having climed up May Hill) to continue its course all the year. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 99 ‘I don't think he'll ever get up May hill,’ i.e., I don't think he will live through the month of May. 1917 E. W. Wilcox Over May Hill in Coll. Poems I. 311 Day by day nearing and nearing..Cometh the shape and the shadow I'm fearing, ‘Over the May hill’ is waiting your tomb. < as lemmas |
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