| 释义 |
steep-up, a. arch.
[f. steep a. + up adv. Cf. steep-down.]
Precipitous; perpendicular.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Assurgo, Assurgit clementer & molliter collis, riseth by littel and littell, and is not stipe vp. 1571Digges Pantom. i. xxv. H j b, If the hill or turret be steepe vp, so that the foote be visible lying perpendicularly vnder the top. c1600Shakes. Sonn. vii. 5 And hauing climb'd the steepe-vp heauenly hill. 1847Tennyson Princess Prol. 63 The fountain of the moment, playing, now A..steep-up spout whereon the gilded ball Danced like a wisp. 1878― Q. Mary iii. iv, And on the steep-up track of the true faith Your lapses are far seen. |