单词 | to open a trench |
释义 | > as lemmasto open a trench (also trenches) b. transitive. To make or produce (an opening or open space of some kind) by cutting, breaking in, or breaking up; also figurative. to open a trench (also trenches): to dig a trench (or trenches), esp. in order to approach a besieged place.to open a gap: see gap n.1 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > cut open openOE to-slita1250 undoc1440 unrip1481 to cut open1786 OE Stowe Psalter vii. 16 Lacum aperuit et effodit eum et incidit in foueam quam fecit : seað he openode & adealf hine & he hreas on seað uel on pit þone he worhte. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xli. 18 I..shal opene in heeȝe hillis Floodis, & in þe myddil of feeldis wellis. a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 858 (MED) A spere he sette to crystys syde; He launced and opun [v.r. openede] a wounde ful wyde. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) vii. 16 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 138 (MED) Þe slough he opened, and it groue he [v.r. grof with spade], And in dyke he felle þat he made to be. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) vii. 16 The lake he oppynd and vp grofe it. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxix But the Italians her awne..chyldren opened the gappe, and made the waye of her destruccion. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 689 Soon had his crew Op'nd into the Hill a spacious wound. View more context for this quotation 1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 3 He had resolved to leave the Place, where he had not yet opened the Trenches. 1727 J. Keith Mem. (1843) 71 We expected immediately to have open'd the trenches, but very misfortunately we had no cannon. 1753 T. Smollettt Ferdinand Count Fathom II. xxxv. 21 Snatching up a poker, with one stroke [he] opened a deep trench upon the attorney's skull. a1822 P. B. Shelley Arethusa in Posthumous Poems (1824) 157 Alpheus bold..With his trident..opened a chasm In the rocks. 1897 J. H. Windsor Westward Movement xi. 189 The fort beat off the fleet, and Glavez brought up his land forces and opened trenches. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 883/1 Zeus with a thunderbolt opened a chasm. 1962 M. Trevor Newman vii. 15 Now the family disaster..suddenly opened an abyss in his happy and active life. 1993 B. Wood Rebel Angel (BNC) 219 The Tree Spirits were scrabbling at the earth..so that, quite soon, a deep trench was opened. < as lemmas |
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