| 释义 |
aimed, ppl. a.|eɪmd|
[f. aim. v. + -ed.]
†1. Estimated. Obs.
1382Wyclif Lev. xxvii. 19 He shal adde the fifthe part of the eymed money.
2. Directed or pointed at a mark, or in a particular direction; also fig.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 179 Temptations aym'd at her, broke like Haile against a Rocke. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 176 Wks. I. 134 An archer's hand, Palsied with fear, shot wide his ill-aim'd shaft.
3. aimed at: Taken as a point of destination, or as a mark or butt; sought to be reached or struck.
a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. i. 24 Which was the discovery principally aimed at. |