| 释义 |
bitten, ppl. a.|ˈbɪt(ə)n|
[pa. pple. of bite v.]
1. Cut into, pierced, or wounded with the teeth.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. iv. 64 Youths that..fight for bitten Apples. 1789J. O'Donnel in Med. Commun. II. 299 His face on the bitten side was..swelled.
2. fig. Infected, seized with a mania.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. II. vii. 89 Readers not bitten with the love of verse. 1873Morley Rousseau II. 186 Readers of the Social Contract, and..bitten by its dogmatic temper.
3. Often combined with instrumental ns., as frost-bitten, hunger-bitten, vice-bitten (-bit), etc.
1599H. C. in Greenham's Wks. To Rdr., The thirstie soule..Or hunger-bit. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 93 The leaves..before they are frost-bitten. 1754Richardson Grandison VI. xxvii. 164 A man vice-bitten.
†4. actively. Having bitten, biting. (Used with qualifying adverb: cf. fair-spoken.) Obs. rare.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 674 They [Greyhounds] are of all dogs the sorest bitten and least amased with any crueltie in their enemie.
5. In engraving, bitten-in: see bite v. 11 b.
1878Abney Treat. Photogr. 183 The plate has to be..again heated to slightly melt the bitumen, so as to allow it to flow down the sides of the bitten-in lines.
6. bitten-off: abruptly terminated (as if by the action of biting).
1829T. Castle Introd. Bot. 20 The eroded or bitten-off appearance. 1937V. Woolf Years 288 Baxter gave a queer little bitten-off smile. |