| 单词 | to sleep under grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto sleep under grass b. under grass (also grasses): in the grave, buried; (in later use) esp. in to sleep under grass: to be dead and buried. Formerly also †into grass: into the grave (obsolete). Cf. grass-bed n. at Compounds 5. rare (archaic and poetic) after Middle English. ΚΠ a1350 Sayings St. Bernard (Harl. 2253) in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 512 Vnder grases [?a1300 Digby graues], þer hue buen, By-holdeþ whet þer lye. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 245 Into gresse þou me aglyȝte. c1410 (c1350) Gamelyn (Harl. 7334) l. 69 Anon as he was deed and vnder gras igraue. 1914 Poet. Lore Winter 609 In the tomb On God's chosen day, We went forever To sleep under grass. 1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King v. vi. 125 Long now they sleep under grass in Gondor by the Great River. < as lemmas |
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