| 单词 | to retrick one's beams |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto retrick one's beams 1. transitive. to retrick one's beams: to recover mentally or physically from a setback; to rally one's strength or spirits; to refocus. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > make cheerful [verb (transitive)] > recover good spirits revive1442 reprise1481 to retrick one's beams1856 1856 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 37/2 After each defeat Octavius was allowed to ‘Retrick his beams’, [etc.]. 1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington II. iii. 28 We have retricked our beams in our own ways, and our lives have not been desolate. 1886 L. Berens Woman with Past I. 115 I suppose it is useless to say 'Come home and retrick your beams.' I cannot reconcile myself to the notion of your slaving in exile. 1908 Life 9 Apr. 380 The repeated intention of Madame Anna Gould to retrick her matrimonial beams. 2005 M. A. Doody in C. Alexander & J. McMaster Child Writer from Austen to Woolf 118 In order to get published, she had to retrick her beams, redefine herself as a ‘serious’ novelist. < as lemmas |
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