英语词汇“to live on the alms-basket”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. figurative. Esp. in to live on the alms-basket (and variants): to depend on what may be freely taken from what others have provided, or from what is publicly available; (also literally) to live on public charity.In later use chiefly with reference to, or in echoes of, quot. 1598.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > receive poor relief

to live on the alms-basket1598

to go (also come, fall, be sent, etc.) on the parisha1637

to take collection1670

to come (also go, fall, be flung, etc.) upon the town1836

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 39 O they haue lyud long on the almsbasket of wordes.

1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 183 They [sc. kings] must not altogether hang vpon the almes basket of their Counsell, but vnderstand of themselues in some measure those things which concerne their places.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 170 That he should liue vpon the almes-basket.

a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 73 We are fed every day out of the Alms-basket of God's Providence.

1712 W. Ray Let. 24 July in S. Bownas Acct. Life, Trav., & Christian Experiences (1756) 120 We lived by the alms-basket.

1808 Monthly Mirror Nov. 277 A ponderous alms-basket of gleanings ycleped The Lounger's Common-Place Book.

1868 Edinb. Monthly Mag. Oct. 413/1 Intellectual men..who despise their fellow-men who live on the alms-basket of borrowed opinion.

1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 754/2 Designers who have merely ‘lived in the alms basket’ of architectural forms, and whose notion of architecture consists in multiplying ‘features’.

1901 J. Smith Short Stud. xxvi. 162 Even the poorest man in Israel was bound to drink off four cups of wine that night, yea, though he lived off the alms basket.

1922 C. H. Van Tyne Causes War of Independence xiii. 350 Some of the pamphleteers had ‘lived long on the alms basket of words’.

1993 J. Bate Shakespeare & Ovid i. 34 The linguistic move that is mimicked when Holofernes and Don Armado dip into the alms-basket of words at the great feast of language in Love's Labour's Lost.

单词	to live on the alms-basket
释义	> as lemmas to live on the alms-basket 2. figurative. Esp. in to live on the alms-basket (and variants): to depend on what may be freely taken from what others have provided, or from what is publicly available; (also literally) to live on public charity.In later use chiefly with reference to, or in echoes of, quot. 1598. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > be poor [verb (intransitive)] > receive poor relief to live on the alms-basket1598 to go (also come, fall, be sent, etc.) on the parisha1637 to take collection1670 to come (also go, fall, be flung, etc.) upon the town1836 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 39 O they haue lyud long on the almsbasket of wordes. View more context for this quotation 1610 J. Boys Expos. Dominical Epist. & Gospels 183 They [sc. kings] must not altogether hang vpon the almes basket of their Counsell, but vnderstand of themselues in some measure those things which concerne their places. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 170 That he should liue vpon the almes-basket. a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (1692) 73 We are fed every day out of the Alms-basket of God's Providence. 1712 W. Ray Let. 24 July in S. Bownas Acct. Life, Trav., & Christian Experiences (1756) 120 We lived by the alms-basket. 1808 Monthly Mirror Nov. 277 A ponderous alms-basket of gleanings ycleped The Lounger's Common-Place Book. 1868 Edinb. Monthly Mag. Oct. 413/1 Intellectual men..who despise their fellow-men who live on the alms-basket of borrowed opinion. 1891 Harper's Mag. Oct. 754/2 Designers who have merely ‘lived in the alms basket’ of architectural forms, and whose notion of architecture consists in multiplying ‘features’. 1901 J. Smith Short Stud. xxvi. 162 Even the poorest man in Israel was bound to drink off four cups of wine that night, yea, though he lived off the alms basket. 1922 C. H. Van Tyne Causes War of Independence xiii. 350 Some of the pamphleteers had ‘lived long on the alms basket of words’. 1993 J. Bate Shakespeare & Ovid i. 34 The linguistic move that is mimicked when Holofernes and Don Armado dip into the alms-basket of words at the great feast of language in Love's Labour's Lost. extracted from alms-basketn. < as lemmas
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