英语词汇“to run in couples”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. transferred and figurative. to go in couples, to hunt in couples, to run in couples.

Here the original meaning is often forgotten, and couples used with the sense of pairs, twos.

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1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. B3 S'death, you perpetuall Curres, Fall to your couples, againe, and cossen kindly.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 137 Ile keepe my Stables where I lodge my Wife, Ile goe in couples with her.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xii. 19 (note) None of them [sc. the nerves] single, but runne in couples.

1644–7 J. Cleveland Char. London Diurnall 4 They hunt in their Couples, what one doth at the head, the other scores up at the heele.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iv. 39 (Like Blood-hounds) they usually hunt (in couples) together, (Avarice and Ambition) that's their Name.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 159 And when he had been sufficiently broken in, in the parlour, he began to run in couples in the Assembly-room.

单词	to run in couples
释义	> as lemmas to run in couples b. transferred and figurative. to go in couples, to hunt in couples, to run in couples. Here the original meaning is often forgotten, and couples used with the sense of pairs, twos. ΚΠ 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. B3 S'death, you perpetuall Curres, Fall to your couples, againe, and cossen kindly. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 137 Ile keepe my Stables where I lodge my Wife, Ile goe in couples with her. View more context for this quotation 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xii. 19 (note) None of them [sc. the nerves] single, but runne in couples. 1644–7 J. Cleveland Char. London Diurnall 4 They hunt in their Couples, what one doth at the head, the other scores up at the heele. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iv. 39 (Like Blood-hounds) they usually hunt (in couples) together, (Avarice and Ambition) that's their Name. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 159 And when he had been sufficiently broken in, in the parlour, he began to run in couples in the Assembly-room. extracted from couplen. < as lemmas
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