英语词汇“to make a hard shift”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. To succeed with difficulty, to manage with effort to do something. So †to make a hard shift.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > do something with great difficulty

to make (a) shift1538

to make pottage of a flintc1576

to get (also wring) water from a flint1597

to make a hard shift1639

1538 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monast. (1843) 194 Thei war not abill to make schiffte to paye for my costis.

1627–8 W. Laud Diary 5 Feb.–17 Mar. I made a shift to go and christen my Lord Duke's son.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. iii. 171 Sixty yeares almost did the Latines make a hard shift to hold Constantinople.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 136 Most of the Foot made a shift to conceal themselves.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 77. ⁋5 I..can make a shift to command my Attention at a Puppet-Show or an Opera.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. iv. ii. 17 Booth made a shift to support his lovely Burthen.

1832 H. Martineau Ireland i. 13 Every year less and less came up, and that which did make a shift to grow yielded less and less meal.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xi. 187 When she first came here she could speak no English; now she can make shift to talk it a little.

单词	to make a hard shift
释义	> as lemmas to make a hard shift c. To succeed with difficulty, to manage with effort to do something. So †to make a hard shift. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > do something with great difficulty to make (a) shift1538 to make pottage of a flintc1576 to get (also wring) water from a flint1597 to make a hard shift1639 1538 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monast. (1843) 194 Thei war not abill to make schiffte to paye for my costis. 1627–8 W. Laud Diary 5 Feb.–17 Mar. I made a shift to go and christen my Lord Duke's son. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. iii. 171 Sixty yeares almost did the Latines make a hard shift to hold Constantinople. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 136 Most of the Foot made a shift to conceal themselves. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 77. ⁋5 I..can make a shift to command my Attention at a Puppet-Show or an Opera. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. iv. ii. 17 Booth made a shift to support his lovely Burthen. 1832 H. Martineau Ireland i. 13 Every year less and less came up, and that which did make a shift to grow yielded less and less meal. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xi. 187 When she first came here she could speak no English; now she can make shift to talk it a little. extracted from shiftn. < as lemmas
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