| 单词 | yet-living |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyet-living With participles and adjectives, forming adjectives (and derived nouns), in the sense ‘still’, ‘as yet’, as yet-living, yet-unknown, yet-warm, etc. [Compare similar uses at still adv. Compounds c.] ΚΠ 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 47 She deemd it no decorum to blemish her yet-during pleasures with not auailing sorrow. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 4 The yet-free Earth..(Vntorne with ploughs). 1648 N. Ward Mercurius Anti-mechanicus Ep. Ded. sig. A4v A graine of yet-unknown and Scripture-proof truth may turne my judgement. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 382 Then shook the Heroe,..And question'd thus his yet-unconquer'd mind. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. vii. 115 Earnest as the father was in watching the yet-living, he had eyes and ears for all that concerned the dead. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 167 The yet-unblazon'd shield. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 7 A yet-warm corpse, and yet unburiable. 1894 A. S. Way tr. Euripides Ion in tr. Euripides Tragedies I. 303 Her dreams of a yet-coming glory. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada i. xxxi. 188 Ada also half-turned, and her yet-ungemmed neck showed white as she ran up the porch steps. 2013 K. E. Drexler Radical Abundance vii. 92 Regions that hold potential machines and devices of yet-unknown designs. < as lemmas |
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