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单词 alive and well
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alive and well
P1. alive and well: neither dead nor experiencing illness, harm, etc.; not moribund; flourishing, esp. despite suggestions to the contrary. In later use also in alive and well and living in —— (colloquial).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [phrase]
alive and well?1590
?1590 A. Munday tr. First Bk. Amadis of Gaule xxi. f. 110 Your Amadis is yet aliue and wel.
1660 T. Forde Virtus Rediviva 122 It is not enough that you are alive and well, unless you tell me so.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 13 July (1992) II. 246 Mr. Flints little girl is alive and well.
1858 B. W. Richardson Cause Coagulation of Blood App. 451 The animal recovered without the slightest indication of injury, and it is alive and well now.
1864 B. J. Sulivan Let. 18 Mar. in C. Darwin Corr. (2001) XII. 81 I was saying to Usborne how very unusual it was to find all our Beagle party (that is the executives) alive and well after 33 years.
1912 Ann. Rep. Bee-keepers' Assoc. Ont. 1911 12 This old Association has thrived and done much for bee-keeping... It is alive and well at the present day.
1968 Guardian 17 Feb. 7/4 A new show called ‘Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris’.
1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 5 Sept. 52/3 The last English eccentric is alive and well and living comfortably in Oakland.
1986 More (N.Z.) Feb. 19/2 Bigotry is alive and well in my community.
2009 New Yorker 5 Jan. 6/2 Chuck Berry..is still alive and well and fully capable of reelin' and rockin'.
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