| 释义 |
† euˈripe Obs.
[a. F. euripe, ad. L. eurīpus, a. Gr. εὔρῑπος: see Euripus.]
= Euripus.
1600Holland Livy xliiii. xi. 1177 On the other side there is an Euripe or arm of the sea. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. i, A sea full of shelves and rocks, sands, gulfes, Euripes and contrary tides. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove Wks. 119 What Euripe..doth change so often as man? 1656–81Blount Glossogr., Euripe, any strait, fret or Channel of the Sea, running between two shoars.
fig.1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xiii. 366 Nor can he [a man] ever perish but in the Euripe of Ignorance. |