单词 | to stand still |
释义 | > as lemmasto stand still a. to stand still. (Sometimes merely a more explicit synonym of the verb stand v. 3a, 26, 29b, 29d, 30a.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adverb] > without moving to stand stillc1000 stone-still?c1225 statuelike1640 unmovingly1733 stirlessly1825 statically1841 motionlessly1847 c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 262 Seo sunne stod stille. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2137 All swa summ þe steoressmann. Aȝȝ lokeþþ till an steorrne. Þatt stannt aȝȝ still upp o þe lifft. & swiþe brihhte shineþþ. c1300 Leg. Gregory (Schulz) 401 Gregorij stod stille so ston. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8188 Þe strem all still began to stand. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xii. 50 It rynnes noȝt, ne nowþer ebbez ne flowez, bot standez ay still. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xliiv A tree hath a propertie to growe to a certayne hyght, and whan he cometh to that hyght he standeth styll. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xx. f. xxviijv Then Iesus stode styll, and called them. 1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xv. f. lxix How the runnyng ryuer of Jordane stode styll. 1548 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 134 Ye other ij Aldermen..which then shall remayne and stond still in the seyd office. 1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 10v The Bowe that bended standeth still, his strength will loose and lack. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets civ. sig. G2v So your sweete hew, which me thinkes still doth stand Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceaued. View more context for this quotation 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 740 The Ship stood still, and neither stirred forward or backwards. 1655 C. Sympson in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 14 When your Base standeth still (that is to say, hath two or more Notes together in one and the same place). 1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) iii. 30 If God's providence above, and his plough below stand still, we must all shortly beg or starve. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 129. ¶1 A Clock that stands still is sure to point right once in twelve Hours. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 407. ¶1 Our Preachers stand stock-still in the Pulpit. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 97 One of the horses took it into his head to stand still. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xxvii. 313 I paused, and my heart stood still. 1858 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 19 i. 193 This shoot becomes a worthless tree..which after a few years' growth stands still. 1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) iii. 58 Many people seem to think that the world stands still while they are away, or at dinner, or ill. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xii. 317 Time seems to have stood as still as in that immortal palace where everything went to sleep for a hundred years. < as lemmas |
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