| 单词 | easy! |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseasy! b. colloquial. As word of command. easy!: (move) gently! Also easy ahead!: (steam) at a moderate speed!; easy on: steady on! go easy! In Boating, easy all!: stop (rowing)! Hence as n. A short rest. ΚΠ 1865 L. Stephen Sketches from Cambr. 119 Hallo! easy all! Hard word there, Smith! what does it mean? 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Easy, lower gently. 1883 I. L. Bird Sketches Malay Penins. v, in Leisure Hour 193/2 ‘Easy ahead’, shouts the..captain. 1885 Standard 6 Mar. 3/7 They reached Iffley lock without an easy. 1892 G. R. Lowndes Camping Sketches v. 161 We took a day's easy at Tyn-y-groes,..by the salmon pool. 1922 T. E. Lawrence Let. 7 Sept. (1938) 365 I..read it in an easy, as we sat on the stye roof. 1928 Observer 19 Feb. 14 In the fourth [movement], being unable to switch off, I took an easy by thinking of something else. 1929 M. de la Roche Whiteoaks x. 490 ‘What's the to-do?’.. ‘Easy on, Mama... It's nothing but young Finch. We've found out where he is.’ 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 27 Easy on!, go easy! desist! be sensible! < as lemmas |
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