| 单词 | couplet-chiming |
| 释义 | > as lemmascouplet-chiming C1. attributive and in other combinations, as couplet-chiming, couplet-grinder, couplet verse (sense 1). ΚΠ 1667 J. Dryden Let. to Sir R. Howard in Annus Mirabilis 1666 Pref. In this necessity of our Rhymes, I have always found the couplet Verse most easie. 1816 G. Colman Eccentricities Edinb. 4 'Twere strange if they [dead poets] should rise, and go, Afresh to couplet-chiming! 1896 Westm. Gaz. 1 June 3/2 The most formal allegorical couplet-grinders of the eighteenth century. 1941 Ess. & Stud. XXVI. 78 He [sc. William Collins] sank to the level of the poorest couplet-grinder among them. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。