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单词 weather-bound
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weather-boundadj.

Brit. /ˈwɛðəbaʊnd/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌbaʊnd/
Detained by bad weather; prevented by stress of weather from sailing, travelling, or other outdoor activity.
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storm-stayed1491
storm-stead1513
wintered1556
wind-bound1588
weather-bound1590
water-bound1776
ice-bound1822
snowed-up1836
fog-logged1846
snowed-in1904
1590 R. Ferris Most Dangerous Aduenture B 1 There we were wether bound, and constrained to stay full seuenteene dayes.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 334 The messenger who carried those Letters, being weather bound and sea-beaten, could not come so soone.
1667 London Gaz. No. 193/4 The Fleet of Colliers that lay here weather~bound, are now under sail for the Thames.
1726 R. Gale in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 187 I lye weatherbound here by a deep snow.
1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. xvii. 346 Two young Americans..were in the house, equally weather-bound with ourselves.
figurative.1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 102 This dependence of the soul upon the seasons..may, I suppose, justly be derided as the fumes of vain imagination... The author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from hellebore, that he is only idle or exhausted.
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