| 释义 |
swift-footed, a.
(stress variable)
Having swift feet; running or going swiftly.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xix, Do what ere thou wilt swift-footed time To the wide world. 1617Drummond of Hawthornden Forth Feasting 47 Some swiftest-footted get her hence. 1631Massinger Emperor East iv. ii, Swift-footed Atalanta. c1714Arbuthnot, etc. Mem. M. Scribl. xiii, Man-tiger..made a circle round the Chamber, and..the swift-footed Martin pursued him. 1870Bryant Iliad I. i. 5 Achilles the swift-footed, answered thus. |