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单词 qui vive
释义 qui vive|ki viv|
[F., lit. ‘(long) live who?’ a sentinel's challenge, intended to discover to which party the person challenged belongs, and properly requiring an answer of the form (vive) le roi, la France, etc.]
on the qui vive, on the alert or look-out.
1726Swift in Pope's Wks. (1871) VII. 82 It is imagined that I must be..alway upon the qui vive and the slip-slop.1752Fielding Amelia Wks. 1775 X. 223 Though he be a little too much on the qui-vive, he is a man of great honour.1833Marryat P. Simple lii, This put us all on the qui vive.1883E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Dec. 56/1 ‘What now?’ cried Burtis, all on the qui vive.
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