| 单词 | check to your queen! |
| 释义 | > as lemmascheck to your queen! 1. A call at chess by which notice is given to the opponent that a move has been made which exposes his King; one says also check to your king! and even check to your queen! Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [interjection] > check or checkmate checkc1330 checkmatec1390 matec1450 c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 426 Ate ches þai sett hem to playn..Þurch a chek Fabour seyd, for soþ, Sadok in hert wex wroþ. c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 669 Therewith Fortune said Checke here, And mate in the mid point of the checkere. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. ii. 168 The kynge..ought to take hede that he stande not soo that a knyght or an other saith chek rook, than the kyng loseth ye rook. 1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play 8 No piece can take him [the king], but must only salute him with the word check. 1791 W. Taylor tr. Lessing Nathan ii. i. (Tauchn. 1868) 41 (Saladin & Sittah playing chess) Sittah. I move—So—Now then—Check! and Check again! ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 45 When a player gives check, and fails to give notice by crying ‘Check!’ his adversary need not, unless he think proper, place his king out of check, or cover. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xxxix. 187 ‘Check, certainly,’ said Flaxman to himself ruefully..‘not mate, I hope, if one can but find out how not to be a fool in future.’ < as lemmas |
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