单词 | alas |
释义 | alasint.n. Now chiefly archaic. A. int. 1. Used to express grief, pity, regret, disappointment, or concern. Also with for, †to.Often used in collocation with alack int. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [interjection] > specific cry of grief woeeOE wellawayeOE weilac1000 wellawayOE wellaOE woe is meOE wummec1175 wia1200 outa1225 alas?c1225 walec1275 ac1300 whilec1402 ochonea1425 wellesay?1440 wannowec1450 helas1484 ah1509 ocha1522 ah me!a1547 wougha1556 eh1569 welladay1570 how1575 wellanear1581 ay me!1591 lasa1593 wella, welladay1601 good lack!1638 oime1660 pillaloo1663 wellanearing1683 lack-a-day1695 wasteheart1695 walya1724 lackadaisy1748 ochree1748 waesucks1773 well-a-winsa1774 ullagone1819 wirra1825 mavrone1827 wirrasthru1827 ototoi1877 wurra1898 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 119 Allas seið ure lauerd. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 102 Alas, louerd, wat sul we tak, We þat abbiþ sin iwroȝt? 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 71 A allas! huet is ous worþ oure pouer worþssippe..and bost? c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxix. 5 (MED) Alas to me; for my dwellynge is proloyngned. a1400 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 54 (MED) Hallas! men planys of litel trwthe. c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxvii. 298 ‘Halas, Melusyne’, sayd Raymondin..‘now haue I lost you for euer’. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. C7 Eylace how lightlye maie one perceaue, when the wemen loue. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) l. 754 Alaas! þat lordes of þe londe leueþ swiche wrechen. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 180 Alas poore Yoricke, I knew him Horatio. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 461 Alas, both for the deed and for the cause! View more context for this quotation 1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. I. i. iv. §1 158 Some of them, alas too many, were heard swearing very rudely. 1735 Weekly Amusem. 23 Aug. 1082/2 Grim death; that old thief, Alas, and alack, Had the boldness to pack This old priest on his back. 1756 Ld. Barrington in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 383 Alas! they were as infatuated as their chief. 1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. VI. iii. 32 Alas for our easy sensual life. 1861 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 8 Apr. Alas! and alack! To-day we are glad, to-morrow the shadow falls. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 36 Alas, the happy day! the foolish day! Alas! the sweet time, too soon passed away! 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 3/3 Alas, this poor country is in an awful fix. 1966 Farmer wants Wife (Farmers Weekly Farm Women's Club) 42 Gone for ever are the lovely symmetrical rows of stacks, where the thatcher..practised his art—a dying art, alas. 2007 Wired Jan. 124/1 Evolution, alas, hasn't made us perfect. 2. alas the day and variants: used to express sorrow, concern, or regret at the events of a particular day; (later more generally, frequently as alas-a-day) used to express surprise or dismay, often in response to a particular event. Cf. alack the day, alackaday at alack int. 2. ΚΠ c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 491 Ther I was bred, allas that ilke day. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 658 Allas..the day that I was born. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 44 Alas the heauy day, why do you weepe? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. 214 Alas the day, what shall I do with my doublet & hose? View more context for this quotation 1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer iii. i. 37 Alas-a-day, this is a lamentable story; my Lady must be told on't. 1770 Four Pastoral Ess. i in T. Stratford tr. J. Milton Paradisi Amissi 110 Alas the luckless day! As forth I stray'd, An hare..my pathway cross'd. 1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. 237 And there she's lean'd her back to a thorn, Oh, and alas-a-day! 1839 K. H. Digby Mores Catholics ix. xi. 332 His sisters, alas the day! already slept at the foot of the green hill on which the castle stood. 1898 J. Drake Wedding Bells out of Tune 56 Alas a day! that poor Faithie's Si should have been the shadow on this lake's history. 1901 Reid's Bk. Cheese (ed. 4) 88 Once and once only, was that pudding dropped. Alas, the sad day! 1931 H. R. Garis Uncle Wiggily's Trav. ii. 19 Alack, and alas-a-day! The crow knocked down the wren's nest. 1989 J. Sanford Walk in Fire 56 Alas the day, those were the wrong colours. B. n. An exclamation or utterance of ‘alas’; a regretful or sorrowful cry. ΚΠ 1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 115 Wretchid allasses, godhelpes, and woes? a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 88 Shee did (with an Alas) I would faine say, bleed Teares; for I am sure, my heart wept blood. View more context for this quotation 1677 J. Brown Christ the Way To Christian Reader sig. B4v I could on my own behalfe and others, sob out my Alas, from the bottome of my soul. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. x. 104 Miss Howe says, tho' prefaced with an alas! that her charming friend loves me. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 38 The ballad of his sad life closes With sighs, and an alas! 1890 Kappa Alpha Jrnl. June 437 His letter was full of ‘alases!’ and other interjections. 1911 E. H. Manning-Brewer Treason of Blood x. 118 All the people we know give two or three gasps and sighs, and some ‘Alases’. 2012 E. Huntington tr. S. Dyachenko & M. Dyachenko Scar ii. 64 The bewildered elder Soll vainly tried to extract an explanation from the physician about the meaning of his alas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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