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单词 to take rest
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to take (one's) rest
P2. to take (one's) rest: to sleep; to take a break from activity, relax.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)]
to go to (one's) resteOE
to take (one's) restc1175
to go to bedc1275
to lie downc1275
reposec1485
down-lie1505
bed1635
to turn in1695
retire1696
lay1768
to go to roost1829
to turn or peak the flukes1851
kip1889
doss1896
to hit the hay1912
to hit the deck1918
to go down1922
to bunk down1940
to hit the sack1943
to sack out1946
to sack down1956
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6492 Þeȝȝ tokenn nihhtess resste þær.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 1315 (MED) Rest þai token þat ich niȝt.
c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 94 Myn spirit..For-wery of myn labour al the day Tok reste that made me to slepe faste.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxiv. 89 The tyme after the daye is paste and goon is couenable..for the bodyes humayn that haue traueylled, to take rest.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. xxvi. 45 Then came he to his disciples, and sayde vnto them: Slepe on now, and take youre rest.
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K But I which spend, the darke and dreadful night, In watch & ward, when those birds take their rest, Forpine my selfe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 202 We two..will guard your person, While you take your rest, and watch your safety. View more context for this quotation
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. ii. v. 266 He that will intend to take his rest must goe to bed..with a secure and composed minde.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. viii. 55 As we run no risk, we might take our rest with great confidence.
1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. ii. iii. 139 If we are to fight to-morrow we had better take our rest to-night, to make us fresh and strong for the battle.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 102 Here will I take my rest After so many hours of toil and quest.
1898 J. Blewett Heart Songs 62 Tis said that Peter and the rest did sleep, Did sleep and take their rest that last night in Gethsemane.
1902 J. Payne Poet. Wks. I. 358 Down, to sleep and take my rest, I lay.
1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children 373 Hey mister, why not—finish your writery and then take rest.
2007 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 10 Nov. If Sir Thomas does not find the accommodation at this hotel satisfies him on his next visit, I can only recommend him to take his rest in the Headrow Gardens.
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to take (the) rest
a. Chiefly Scottish. The action of stopping or halting; (in later use) spec. (usually of a horse) the action of stubbornly refusing to go forward or continue; an instance of this. Frequently in to take (the) rest. Sc. National Dict. (at Reest) records this sense as still in use in Stirlingshire in 1968.In some constructions, esp. without rest, overlapping with and difficult to distinguish certainly from rest n.1
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey > the action of stopping
arrestc1385
resta1387
halting1759
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 353 Þey dryueþ hir hors wiþ a..ȝerde..instede of barnacles and of britels of reest.
c1480 (a1400) St. Adrian l. 652 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 290 Fra scho wiste, yddir scho sped but ony riste.
a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis l. 1416 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 45 On þe morne withoutin rest..To kirk scho went.
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 1506 Now I will rin, but rest, And tell that all is ready.
1571 Barbour's Actis & Lyfe Bruce (Lekprevik) viii. 356 The folk fled on this maner Withouttin rest [1489 Adv. For-owt arest].
1655 Kirk-session Rec. 15 Apr. in Boharm Parish Mag. (1891) July John Clerk..is found to trouble the kirk in tyme of divine service and being 3 tymes admonished be the minister to take rest he wold not obey.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. ix. 131 He will, most likely, give a plunge or two, and perhaps take the rest for a minute. View more context for this quotation
1871 Glasgow Weekly Herald 17 June He saw Wat Ainslie belabouring an unfortunate donkey which had apparently taken the reist.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby 153/2 ‘He teuk reist’, a fit of stubbornness.
1880 G. Fraser Lowland Lore 100 Aifter mony a reist the puir, dowie, auld beast, Wi' the whup aft reminded, wad dae as 'twas gairr't.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 251 Ti take the reist, 1. Of a horse: To become restive, and refuse to go forward. 2. Of persons: To stop short and refuse to proceed with any business, affair, etc.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 230/2 He tuk the reest in the cart the other day.
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