英语词汇“dead calm”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. In a manner, or to a degree, characteristic of or suggesting death; with extreme inactivity, stillness, etc.; utterly, profoundly, absolutely (as dead asleep, dead calm); to extremity, ‘to death’ (as dead run, dead tired). Cf. also dead-sick adj. at Compounds 2, dead drunk adj., etc.Often connected with the qualified word by a hyphen, and thus passing into combinations.

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1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 259 Whereof she swouned in his honde, And as who saith lay dede oppressed.]

1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. E4 Leaden-footed griefe, Who neuer goes but with a dead-slowe pace.

a1631 W. Laud Serm. (1847) 125 Elias bid them cry louder; their God was ‘asleep’..Yes, dead asleep.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 267 Deferred hopes need not make me dead-sweir (as we used to say).

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hart Dead run deer have upon occasion taken very great leaps.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 22 As dead-still as a marble man.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 24 In a few minutes it fell dead calm.

1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 157 For all so dead-weary as I lay down.

1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 160 Whether I fainted, or suddenly fell dead-asleep.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 103 To drive into Farringdon..both horses dead done up.

1881 Times 25 July 4/5 Her engines were going dead slow.

单词	dead calm
释义	> as lemmas dead calm a. In a manner, or to a degree, characteristic of or suggesting death; with extreme inactivity, stillness, etc.; utterly, profoundly, absolutely (as dead asleep, dead calm); to extremity, ‘to death’ (as dead run, dead tired). Cf. also dead-sick adj. at Compounds 2, dead drunk adj., etc.Often connected with the qualified word by a hyphen, and thus passing into combinations. ΚΠ 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 259 Whereof she swouned in his honde, And as who saith lay dede oppressed.] 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. E4 Leaden-footed griefe, Who neuer goes but with a dead-slowe pace. a1631 W. Laud Serm. (1847) 125 Elias bid them cry louder; their God was ‘asleep’..Yes, dead asleep. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 267 Deferred hopes need not make me dead-sweir (as we used to say). 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Hart Dead run deer have upon occasion taken very great leaps. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 22 As dead-still as a marble man. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 24 In a few minutes it fell dead calm. 1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 157 For all so dead-weary as I lay down. 1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 160 Whether I fainted, or suddenly fell dead-asleep. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. vi. 103 To drive into Farringdon..both horses dead done up. 1881 Times 25 July 4/5 Her engines were going dead slow. extracted from deadadj.n.adv. < as lemmas
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