| 单词 | ken |
| 释义 | ken I. transitive verb 1. archaic < as far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs, … I stood upon the hatches in the storm — Shakespeare > 2. now dialect < kenned in the beautiful lady the child of his friend — S.T.Coleridge > 3. now chiefly Scotland a. < have kend every wench in the Halidome of St. Mary's — Sir Walter Scott > b. < it was getting dark, and they didn't ken the ground like us — John Buchan > c. < do ye ken what ye're saying, man? — William Black > 4. Scots law intransitive verb 1. now chiefly Scotland < it was his father then ye kent of — Sir Walter Scott > 2. obsolete < spaces distant from them as far as a man may ken — Marchamont Needham > II. 1. obsolete < are safely come within a ken of Dover — John Lyly > 2. a. < then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken — John Keats > b. < 'tis double death to drown in ken of shore — Shakespeare > c. < searched with fixed ken to know what place it was wherein I stood — H.F.Cary > 3. < abstract words that are beyond the ken of young children — Lois M. Rettie > < all knowledge and experience come within the historian's ken — W.G.Carleton > Synonyms: see range III. < has fishwives and boozing kens enough to supply all of America — Kenneth Roberts > IV. |
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