| 释义 |
sumless, a. Chiefly poet.|ˈsʌmlɪs|
[f. sum n.1 or v.1 + -less.]
Without number; that cannot be ‘summed’ or counted; incalculable.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 165 To..make their Chronicle as rich with prayse, As is the Owse and bottome of the Sea With sunken Wrack, and sum-lesse Treasuries. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 36 While the sedentarie Earth..receaves, As Tribute such a sumless journey brought Of incorporeal speed.., Speed, to describe whose swiftness Number failes. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 86 Around the Palace shines The sumless treasure of exhausted mines. 1769Falconer Shipwr. iii. 207 Xerxes..Advanc'd with Persia's sumless troops to war. 1823Campbell Last Man 53 Test of all sumless agonies. 1823De Quincey Herder Wks. 1859 XIII. 131 From the abyss of distance and of sumless elevation. 1876C. L. Smith tr. Tasso xi. xxxvii, Its huge machines and beams of sumless power. |