| 单词 | down and dale | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdown and dale † Coupled with dale in various phrases to refer to valleys and hills, or low land and upland. Frequently in  down and dale. Cf. hill and dale at dale n.1 1a. Obsolete. ΚΠ OE    Homily: De Sancto Iohanne 		(Corpus Cambr. 198)	 in  Englische Studien 		(1885)	 8 477  				Paradisus is eall efenlang and efenbrad; nis ðær naðor ne dæl ne dune. c1175    Ormulum 		(Burchfield transcript)	 l. 13264  				Nohht i dale. ne upp o dun. c1275						 (?a1200)						    Laȝamon Brut 		(Calig.)	 		(1978)	 l. 10408  				Hundes..þene vox driueð ȝeond dales & ȝeond dunes [c1300 Otho dounes]. c1330						 (?c1300)						    Guy of Warwick 		(Auch.)	 l. 4038  				Wendeþ forþ..Ouer þe dounes & þe dales. a1400						 (a1325)						    Cursor Mundi 		(Vesp.)	 l. 22532  				Al þis werld bath dale and dune..Þe dals up-rise, þe fells dun fall. c1405						 (c1390)						    G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 		(Hengwrt)	 		(2003)	 l. 85  				By dale and eek by downe. a1500						 (?a1450)						    Gesta Romanorum 		(Harl. 7333)	 		(1879)	 265  				Þou shalt go by downys and by dalys. 1522    Worlde & Chylde 		(de Worde)	 		(1909)	 sig. A.v  				All is at my hande werke both by downe & by dale. 1597    Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks.  ii. i. 27  				The tame-lesse steed could well his wagon wield, Through downes and dales of the vneuen field. 1618    J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage sig. C3v  				He sent his man with me, o're Dale and Downe. 1755    Gill Morice xvii. 11  				The Lady sat on castil wa, Beheld baith dale and doun. 1810    W. Scott Lady of Lake  i. 37  				By dale and down, We dwell afar from tower and town. 1842    Ld. Tennyson Lady Clare in  Poems 		(new ed.)	 II. 198  				She went by dale, and she went by down, With a single rose in her hair. 1897    L. P. Johnson Ireland 34  				To me the tumult of the street Is no less music, than the sweet Surge of the wind among the wheat, By dale or down. 1929    G. R. Woodward Story of Arion & Dolphin 8  				But as he fared o'er down or dale Whene'er he struck the magick wire Above the sound-board of his lyre. < as lemmas  | 
	
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