| 单词 | cold comfort |
| 释义 | > as lemmascold comfort a. Felt as cold by the receiver, chilling, damping, the reverse of encouraging; as in cold comfort, cold counsel, cold news, †cold rede. ΚΠ c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 436 Wymmens counseiles ben ful ofte colde; Wommannes counseil brought us first to woo. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14295 My broþer lazer þi frend is deed And þat is to me a colde reed. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 264 Lorde! colde watz his cumfort. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (x. 14) We receive but cold comfort of whatsoever the Scripture speaketh. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 86 Cold newes indeed Lord Somerset, But Gods will be done. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 465 Colder tidings, yet they must be told. View more context for this quotation 1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving vii, in Harl. Misc. (1744) II. 153 A cold Comfort to go to hot Hell for Company. 1652 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Massaniello II. 145 There came cold news from the countrey. 1837 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (ed. 2) III. ix. 128 It all falls as cold comfort upon them. 1848 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii Preston brought cold news from Cumberland and Westmoreland. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxi. 356 The messenger sent to Capua came back with cold comfort. < as lemmas |
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