| 释义 |
s'elp
Also 9 swelp.
[Cf. MHG. selftir = so helfe dir.]
Contraction of ‘So help’, in the oath ‘So help me God’. Now only vulgar, often in jocularly altered forms.
a1330Otuel 308 Quaþ roulond, þar he stod on grounde, ‘Selpe me gode’. Ibid. 879 Ȝef ani sarazin wiþ eie, Comeþ to lette me of mi weie, Selp me god & þis day, He sschal abugge, ȝef ich may. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Dead Drummer xlii, His jaw-work would never, I'm sure, s'elp me Bob, Have come for to go for to do sich a job. 1888Kipling Soldiers Three, In Matter of a Private, Slane knelt down and murmured: ‘S'elp me, I believe 'e's dead’. |