| 单词 | fret and fever |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfret and fever 3. Agitation of mind; a ruffled condition of temper; irritation, passion, vexation; also, querulous or peevish utterance. In fret of mind, fret and fever, fret and fume. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] annoy?c1225 noyancec1400 vexation?a1425 crabbingc1450 annoyance1502 grudging1530 vexation of spirit1535 fret1556 fashery1558 spitea1586 gall1591 molestation1598 annoyment1607 incommodation1664 vexednessa1670 tracasserie1715 incommodement1733 frettation1779 vex1815 balls-ache1938 sterks1941 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [noun] > peevish utterance fret1556 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xliii. 38 This formost spider and flie in furious fret, Frowning ech on other. 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. A2 The thought of that Turnes my abused heart-strings into fret. 1612 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 184 He is..blamed..as if he had hastened his brother's end by putting him into frets. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Cor. xii. 5) They make us sick of the fret. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xx. 77 It were a plague and fret of mind..to the poor credulous Laiety. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 154 My Lord was in as great a Fret as I. 1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Aug. 143/1 Situated as thou art..amid the fret and fever of speculation. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. vii. 193 A fret and fever that keeps heart and brain on fire. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xxix. 325 He heard his wife's plaintive fret. 1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxxvii. 2 Those whom the Lord loves are delivered from the fret and fume of life. < as lemmas |
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