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单词 teen
释义 I. teen, n.1 arch.|tiːn|
Forms: 1–3 téona, (1 téon, teane), 1–5 teone, (3 tuone, toune, tone), 4 (Ayenb.) tyene, 3–6 tene, (4 tean), 4–5 ten, 4–5 (6 Sc.) teyn(e, 4–7 teene, (5 tyune, tuene), 6 Sc. teine, 6–9 Sc. tein, 6– teen.
[OE. téona masc. hurt, trouble = OFris. tiona, tiuna injury, OS. tiono wrong, injury; also OE. téon neut. = ON. tjón neut. and fem. damage, loss. Cf. OFris. tiona, tiuna vb. to injure: see teen v.1]
1. Harm inflicted or suffered; injury, hurt, mischief; damage. Obs.
971Blickl. Hom. 51 æt þæm ytmestan dæᵹe eal hit him wyrþ to teonan.c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xx. 13 Freond, ne do ic ðe teane.c1000Ags. Gosp. ibid., Eala þu freond, ne do ic þe nænne teonan.c1175Lamb. Hom. 15 Ne do he þe neure swa muchelne teone.c1205Lay. 6013 While he dude us tuone [c 1275 teone].a1300Cursor M. 7980 (Cott.) His fas philistiens, Þat had don him mani tenis [v.r. -es].c1400Rule St. Benet 978 It be-houes folk of religioun Suffer tenes & tribulacioun.1590Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 18 Gainst that proud Paynim king that works her teene.1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxxi. i. 399 Working much teene and losse.
2. Irritation, vexation, annoyance; anger, wrath, rage; spite, ill-will, malice. Obs. exc. Sc.
c1200Ormin 19606, & forrþi let he takenn himm To wrekenn hise tene.1340Ayenb. 66 Þe dyeuel beginþ þet uer of tyene and euel wyl uor to becleppe.1362Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 100 Pers for puire teone pollede hit a-sonder.c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2248 Neuere was ther no word hem bitwene Of Ialousie or any oother tene.c1400Destr. Troy 1978 Lest the tyrand in his tene hade turnyt hym to sle.c1500Lancelot 3237 So hard o knycht he strykith in his ten.1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iv, Before a tempest's rough regardlesse teene.1690W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo-Lat. 534, I will wreak my teen on them.1719Ramsay 2nd Answ. to Hamilton xi, Pegh, fry, and girn, wi' spite and teen.1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 37 He waxed wud wi' vera teen.
b. transf. Something vexatious, a cause of annoyance; a trouble. Obs.
971Blickl. Hom. 47 Þis weorc biþ deoflum se mæsta teona.c1275Lay. 10087 Ac he ne lifuede noht longe; þat was mochel teone [c 1205 Þat wes his leodene hærm].13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1008 For to telle þerof hit me tene were.1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iv. ix. 172 The fooll child is wrathe & tene of his fader, and sorowe of his moder.
3. Affliction, trouble, suffering, grief, woe. arch.
c1290Beket 1533 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 150 Ȝwane a man is In mest soruwe and teone, Þ anne is ore louerdes grace next.a1300Cursor M. 10472 Vp sco ras and yod a-wai, And went hir þeþen in tene and trei.13..in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 224 Teone and trauail shal beo my lif.1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. i. (Skeat) l. 13 Mirth is chaunged in to tene.1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xiv. 7 Abraam for al hus good hadde muche teene, In gret pouerte he was yput.c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 533 With tray and with teyn and dreed mekill wogh.1556Lauder Tractate 488 Syne turne ȝour myrth and Ioye in teine.1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. i. 97 Each howres ioy wrackt with a weeke of teene.c1620Verses Death R. W. in Farr S. P. Jas. I (1848) 103 Such is the verse compos'd in mournefull teene.1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 268 And bloody Knife did end the Smart, Which she sustained in woful Teen.1801Wordsw. Cuckoo & Night. xxxviii, The God of Love afflict thee with all teen.1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Aug. xxi, The wan face spent with tears and teen.
b. Trouble or pains taken about something. arch.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 135 Ȝe wasten þat men wynnen with trauaille and with tene.1435Misyn Fire of Love ii. i. 70 Contemplacion in greet tynn & with greet labour is gettyn.1600Tourneur Transf. Metamorph. lxxvi, Much teen they bide in search for such an one.1880Contemp. Rev. Mar. 428 Art's high toil and teen.
c. Pain, physical suffering. Obs.
c1400Song Roland 632 He shall tell in the town, who the tale heris, That it is correct, for tean of his eyres.c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 133 For hunger I [Chichevache] feele so grete teene.a1500Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 224 Lazarre..Lyeth sicke..And suffereth moche teene.
4. Name of a disease of hawks. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans B vj b, A medicine for an hawke that hath the teyne. An hawke that hath the teyne..will pante more for oon batyng then an other for iiii.1678Phillips (ed. 4), Teine, a disease in Hawks that makes them pant,..growing heavy, and losing her breath when she flies.
5. Phr. to take teen, ? to take heed.
Perhaps a different word. (But not an error for tent.)
a1500Chester Pl. vi. 734 Her hand roted, as you have seene, Wherby you may take good teene, That unbeleefe is a foule synne.
II. teen, n.2|tiːn|
Usually in pl. teens |tiːnz|.
[The element -teen in numerals treated as a separate word, usually in plural.]
1. a. pl. The years of the life of any person (rarely, of the age of anything) of which the numbers end in -teen, i.e. from thirteen to nineteen; chiefly in phrases in, out of one's teens.
1673Wycherley Gentl. Dancing Master iv. i, Your poor young things, when they are once in the teens, think they shall never be married.1693Humours Town 98 A young Girl in the Teens.1709E. W. Life Donna Rosina 10 Her Daughter, who was by this time come into the Teens.1763Churchill Proph. Famine 3 The stripling raw, just enter'd in his teens.1809Malkin Gil Blas i. i. ⁋1 A chamber-maid who was not exactly in her teens.1818Keats Let. Wks. 1889 III. 101 Your friendship for me is now getting into its teens.1883Fortn. Rev. Feb. 296 The Republic, in the art of government..is still in its teens.
β sing.1834T. Hawkins Mem. Ichthyosauri 30, I was too young..and as inquisitive as a boy in his first ‘teen’ could possibly be.
attrib.1886Ruskin Præterita I. viii. 252 It must have been about the beginning of the teen period.
b. transf. (With sing. and pl.) A young person in the teens. Now chiefly N. Amer. and apprehended as short for teenager. Freq. attrib. and Comb.
1818I. Taylor (title) Advice to the Teens; or, Practical Helps to the Formation of Character.
1951Deseret News (Salt Lake City) 30 July F-1/1 Doing something fun like redecorating your room..is really interesting biz for a teen who loves being busy.1959Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress 18 Aug. 11/2 Today's teens spend money carefully.1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 30 June 20/3 When a teen leaves home it almost never works out well to call the law and have the kid dragged home.1978Chicago June 179/1 If you're over 21, you can make a significant contribution by taking an abandoned teen, 16–20 years old, into your home.
attrib. and Comb.1945Britannica Bk. of Year 771/2 Teen can, teen canteen, teen town, recreation centre for teen-agers (1944).1948Observer 28 Mar. 1/7 (Advt.), Teen girls' frocks in a lovely crepe.1957Sun (Baltimore) 15 Feb. 29/3 The Baltimore Highlands School..had been used..for Friday night dances by a local teen-center.1960Vogue Pattern Bk. Early Autumn 64 Formula for teen chic.1967Crescendo Oct. 25 Bob Miller, who has successfully promoted his band in the 'teen-beat field.1969N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) xviii. 170 He chronicled teen lives better than anyone since Eddie Cochran.1972Jazz & Blues Sept. 12/2 The lyrics became more ‘teen-orientated’.1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 Apr. 17/1 The small red mouth of an eager teen princess.1977Sounds 1 Jan. 2/4 The 32-year-old teen idol.1977Time Out 17–23 June 9/2 Irresistibly melodic teendream romance.1979–80Verbatim Winter 7/1 Teen-crammed schoolbuses.1980Daily Tel. 25 June 17/1 It takes little investigation of British teen magazines to see that there is a big gap in the market.
2. The numbers of which the names end in -teen. Also, years, temperatures, pay, etc., measured in quantities which end in -teen.
1885Blackw. Mag. Apr. 548/1 We are to change the small hours of our afternoons into teens and twenties.1932Times Lit. Suppl. 7 July 493/1 Books of the 'teens and early twenties of the last century.1958Listener 4 Dec. 944/1 In the teens and twenties of this century.1966E. P. Hamp in Birnbaum & Puhvel Ancient Indo-Europ. Dial. 119 The syntax of the 'teens of the numerals.1977Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xii. 59/9 (Advt.), This position may be of interest to you if your current salary is in the upper teens.1981Northeast Woods & Waters Jan. 11/1 With the mercury plunging into the teens for five nights, the entire river valley was iced-in.
Hence ˈteener, one in his or her teens (U.S.); ˈteenhood, the state of being in one's teens; ˈteening a., in one's teens; ˈteenish a., characteristic of persons in their teens, youthful.
1894Blackmore Perlycross 242 This rigid man was wound round the finger of a female ‘*teener’—as the Americans beautifully express it.1947Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 30 Aug. 7/8 (heading) Teener told married life is no game.1956Sun (Baltimore) 27 Oct. 7/6 Attention, teeners! Come meet these Young Jr. Board members.1979–80Verbatim Winter 7/1 I've heard things from teeners that widened my education considerably.
1893Scott. Leader 14 Aug. 2 Whilst in her *teenhood she was placed with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean.
1818Religio Clerici 169 *Teening misses, for a day⁓school prize, Transpose the types, and mar the prophecies.
1811Morn. Post 20 Dec., Their *teenish tricks, at fifty-six, all wise folks should forego.1818Blackw. Mag. IV. 256 She's just of age! shall teenish frailties wrong her?
III. teen, a. Chiefly north. Eng. and Sc. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 teyn(e, 4–6 tene, 6 teene, 7 teen.
[app. f. teen n.1]
1. Angry, vexed, enraged.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1808 Entyses hym to be tene, telles [MS. telled] vp his wrake; Ande clannes is his comfort, and coyntyse he louyes.c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxviii. (Margaret) 542 Þane wes þe tyrand vondir tene Quhene he hard þis of þe maydine clene.c1400Melayne 710 Kyng Charls..At the byschoppe was so tene.1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 202 He wox sa tene, that he gart drown this woman.1570Satir. Poems Reform. xxi. 53 It suld ȝow mufe all to be tene.1674Ray N.C. Words 47 Teen, angry.1828Craven Gloss., Teen, angry.
2. Vexatious; troublesome, distressing.
c1470Golagros & Gaw. 33 With outin beilding of blis, of bern or of byre; Bot torris and tene wais, teirfull quha tellis.
3. ? Corruption of keen. rare.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 34 The freshest colours soonest fade, the teenest Rasor soonest tourneth his edge.1580Ibid. 249 Setting a teene edge, wher thou desirest to haue a sharp poynt. [So edd. 1580–1587; edd. 1595– keenest, keen.]
IV. teen, v.1 Obs. or dial.
Forms: α. 1 téonian, 3–4 teone(n, 3–6 tene, 4 tyeny, 4–6 teyn (pa. tense and pple. teind, teynt), 4–7 teene, (5 tuene, 6 pa. tense teynd, 7 pa. pple. teend). β. 1 *tíenan, týnan, 4 (Ayenb.) tyenen.
[αOE. téonian, f. téon:—*tiun-, teen n.1 = OS. (ge)tiunean:—*tiunôjan. βOE. *tíenan, týnan:—*tiunjan = ON. tŷna, ODa., Sw. dial. tyne to injure, destroy, lose; see tine; thence in 14th c. Kentish, tyeny.]
1. trans.
a. To vex, irritate, annoy, anger, enrage.
αc1000Lambeth Ps. cv. 16 Et irritaverunt gl. And hy teonedon uel hiᵹ gremedon.a1225Ancr. R. 118 Pellican is..so wreðful þet hit sleað ofte uor grome his owune briddes, hwon heo teoneð him.1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 136 Bote Teologye haþ teoned [B. x. 180 tened; C. xii. 129 teened] me ten score tymes; For þe more I muse þeron þe mistiloker hit semeþ.c1440Promp. Parv. 489/1 Tenyn, or wrethyn, or ertyn.., irrito.1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vii. iv. 279 Ne tene, ne angre thou not the poore in his myscheue.1522World & Child in Hazl. Dodsley I. 251 There is no emperor so keen, That dare me lightly tene.a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Teen, v. to trouble; to vex.
β971Blickl. Hom. 47 Ne ablinnan we..þæt we Gode cwemon, & deofol tynan, dæᵹes & nihtes.c1000St. Basil's Admon. iv. (1849) 44 Se wellwillenda man wyle..forberan ᵹif hine man ahwær tynð.c1000Laws of Ethelred vi. c. 48 And þæt hy ælþeodiᵹe men..ne tyrian ne ne tynan.
b. To inflict suffering upon; to afflict, harass; to injure, harm.
c1275Orison of our Lord 22 in O.E. Misc. 139 Wunderliche þurh wacche and fast Þi swete lychome þu teonedest.13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 759 If þat twenty be trwe I tene hem no more.1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 40 Loke þou teone [1377 B. vi. 39 tene; 1393 C. ix. 36 tene, v.r. tuene] no tenaunt bote treuþe wol assente.c1400Destr. Troy 8228 Then the grekes..turnit to the Troiens, tenit hom full euill.c1430Hymns Virg. 62 Quod wraþþe, ‘loke þou bere þee bolde; What man þee teene, His heed þou breest’.
c. To cause (physical) pain or injury to; to hurt.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 79 Þey bablid with her billis how þei bete were And tenyd with twiggis two and twenty ȝeris.c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 319 Hold alwey thy knyfe sure, þy self not to tene.a1550Christis Kirke Gr. x, That torment so him teynd.1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass xi. 121 The body is teend and accloid with divers..maladies.
2. To cause grief or sorrow to; to grieve, distress: in various const.a. trans.; also absol.
a1300Cursor M. 10470 Þan was soruful son dame anna, Quen vtaine hir had tened [v.r. greuid] sua.Ibid. 15694 To wacken þam ne wald he noght, þat teind war wit trai.1340Ayenb. 142 Alle wordes him tyeneþ and greueþ, bote yef hi ne by to god, oþer of god, oþer uor god.Ibid. 161 And þus beginþ þis wordle to tyeny..þe more þet tyeneþ þis lif, þe more me wylneþ þet oþer.c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cxxix. (1869) 125 Ootheres ioye teeneth me; ootheres sorwe is my mete.
b. impers. = grieves.
a1300Cursor M. 19119 (Cott.) At þair talking þam tenid sare [Trin. Hem tened sore].14..Tundale's Vis. (Wagner) 2288 Fulle sore hym tened at hymself than.
c. refl. To be vexed, to be angry; to distress oneself, grieve, be grieved.
a1300Cursor M. 10462 (Cott.) Vtaine hir can wit þis to tene.1340Ayenb. 73 Nou loke eftzone a lyte, and ne tyene þe naȝt, to þise þri þinges.Ibid. 99 Þet non ne ssolde him tyeny hit uorto zigge.1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 83 Þen teonede him Teologye whon he þis tale herde.c1400Destr. Troy 4600 If ye tary ouer tyme þai tene hom þereat.
d. intr. (for refl.) = c.
13..Cursor M. 10462 (Gött.) Vtayne wid þis word gan tene.a1400–50Alexander 2193 Þen tened þe Thebees folke.c1460Towneley Myst. iii. 210 We women may wary all ill husbandis; I haue oone, bi mary!.. If he teyn I must tary how so euer it standis.1566Drant Horace A vij, [He] teenes if that his neyghbours goate a bygger bagge doth beare Then his.1611Cotgr. s.v. Dueil, They tiple now as much as erst they teend.
Hence ˈteening vbl. n., injuring, wrongdoing; affliction; sorrowing, grief.
a1200Moral Ode 253 Þe luueden tening and stale.a1300Cursor M. 24439 (Cott.), I sagh him dei, i sorud ai,..Mi tening es sa togh.
V. teen, v.2
dial. form (chiefly Kentish) of tine (OE. týnan) to fence, hedge in, make a hedge with raddles: see tine. Hence ˈteenage n.1, ˈteenet, -it, brushwood for fences and hedges; ˈteener, a man who teens or keeps in order a raddle fence; teen-hedge, a pleached or raddle hedge.
c1700Kennett MS. Lansd. 1033, lf. 389 To *Teen (Lanc. to Tine), to hedge or to enclose a field, in Kent the longer wood cut for the use of hedghing is calld *Teenage.1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Teenage, (Country-word) Brush-wood for Hedges or Fences.
1902Kentish Express 29 Mar. 10/2 (N. & Q. 10th Ser. XI. 57/2) For sale, stakes, binders, *tenet, peasticks, good cheap, to clear.
1616MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For bread and drink for the *teners and wood-makers.
1638Ibid., Payd..for brishinge of the *teene-hedge downe js. vjd.
VI. teen
obs. or dial. f. tend, tind v. to kindle, tine v. to lose; dial. f. teind.
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