| 单词 | to make busy, good, hard shift |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make busy, good, hard shift a. To make efforts, bestir oneself, try all means. Now dialect. Also †to make busy, good, hard shift. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > try all means to make busy, good, hard shifta1500 to move, roll, or turn every stone or all stonesc1555 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 138 Bot yit I must make better shyft And it be right. c1535 Ld. J. Butler in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 51 But God willing I woll make bessye shifte to send the said mony in haste unto him. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 291 They made eache man the best shift for himselfe, that they could. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. x. 50 Euerie man made shift for himselfe. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xvii. 411 And to come hither thence, I made hard shift. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. iii. 57 I'd make a shift, and fend indoor and out, to give you more liberty. 1882 R. L. Stevenson Memories & Portraits (1887) xi. 175 What they have endured unbroken, we also..will make a shift to bear. < as lemmas |
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