| 单词 | war-dight |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar-dight C3. Instrumental and locative, as war-battered, war-bitten, war-bleached, war-blinded, war-bright, war-broken, war-brutalized, war-devastated, war-famed, war-made, war-marked, war-mazed, war-orphaned, war-ravaged, war-scarred, war-shaken, war-shattered, war-torn, war-tossed, war-triumphant, war-wasted, war-wearied, war-wounded (frequently absol.), war-wracked adjs. Also with sense ‘for war’, as war-apparelled, war-dight, war-laden adjs. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. iv. 18 Whiles the honourable Captaine there Drops bloody swet from his warre-wearied limbes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. vii. 44 Your Armie, which doth most consist Of Warre-markt-footmen. 1624 R. Davenport City Night-cap (1661) iii. 26 The hoofs Of war-apparell'd horses. 1653 J. Taylor Short Relation Long Journey 12 An old ruined winde and war-shaken Castle. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccxlii, in Poems (1878) IV. 61 Warr~famed Douglas. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xcix, in Poems (1878) IV. 125 Our Warre-tost Realme. 1660 Speech to Gen. Monk 1/1 Her War-made breaches now are cur'd again. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 486 Pallas herself, the War-triumphant Maid. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Seven Chiefs against Thebes in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 150 Nor the war-wasted town betray. 1804 T. Campbell Soldier's Dream 22 Fain was their war-broken soldier to stay. 1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends xcv From war-dight youth, to barefoot child. 1827 G. Darley Sylvia 149 The wild, war-blasted marches. 1857 J. G. Whittier in National Era 11 June 94/5 When each war-scarred Continental,..Waved his rusted sword in welcome. 1900 W. B. Yeats Shadowy Waters 33 War-laden galleys, and armies on white roads. 1902 J. H. Rose Life Napoleon I (ed. 2) II. xxv. 101 Duroc, a short, stern, war-hardened man. 1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iv. 43 Women of prayer who had raised just as many waxen palms to altars, in nunnery and in palace, for many a war-wracked generation. 1915 A. Reade Poems of Love & War 52 Joan, the Mystic Maiden, rides Through the war-swept countrysides. 1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. xxi. 323 A hundred and twenty-five thousand ragged, war-bitten men. 1937 Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 15/3 (heading) War-shattered shrine restored. 1938 Times 24 Aug. 12/1 The removal of import duties on mining, agricultural, and other machinery, ostensibly designed to facilitate the rehabilitation of war-devastated areas. 1938 W. B. Yeats Herne's Egg ii. 12 A weather-stained, war-battered Old campaigner such as I. 1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune 144 For one of our war-brutalized soldiery, you have considerable perception. 1939 L. Jacobs Rise of Amer. Film v. xix. 386 Griffith revealed his superficial understanding of the war by remarking his sets for Intolerance had been more impressive than anything he saw in war-torn France and Belgium. 1940 C. Day Lewis Poems in Wartime 10 Along this war-mazed valley. 1941 L. B. Lyon Tomorrow is Revealing 28 Eyes, and the ploughshare, baulk at the recovery Of skeletons war-bleached a grave ago. 1942 W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 220 We recreated and revivified our war-battered Army. 1950 D. Hyde I Believed ii. 14 The war-wounded were everywhere... Blinded, they teamed up into bands. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 46 A wealthy American expatriate..who was supporting near Paris an asylum for war-orphaned children. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 99 It is made by Garden Machinery, Ltd., of Slough. Director of the firm,..extreme right, is a war-blinded South African. 1968 Guardian 23 Feb. 10/6 Few, other than surgical cases (including occasional war-wounded) were brought to the hospital. 1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 108 Regret those jousting aristocracies, War-bright. 1975 ‘E. Lathen’ By Hook or by Crook xxiii. 209 It was imperative to get the children out of their war-torn background. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 1- a/3 The driver took ‘the route normally taken’ by anyone wishing to cross from the Christian to the Moslem sides of war-wracked Beirut. 1978 Poland May 48/3 In the Fifties, twice as many children were born in Poland than was thought appropriate to the poverty of the war-ravaged country. 1980 J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson vii. 114 Harold Nicolson..considered the choice of war-scarred Paris for the site of a peace-seeking meeting a psychological mistake. < as lemmas |
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