| 单词 | glee and game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasglee and game P15. Used in sense 1, in idiomatic collocation with certain (broadly synonymous) nouns, as game and glee (also game and joy, game and play, game and solace, etc.); similarly glee and game, etc. Now rare (archaic in later use). ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 3021 Nu se herewisa hleahtor alegde, gamen ond gleodream. a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 292 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 229 (MED) Nis hit bute gamen and glie of þat man mai here drie. a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 119 (MED) Þer nis nouþer gome ne gleo, auȝ þer is pine wiþ-ute fin. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 370 To honti & to winne is mete & to abbe solas & game. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1918 A loghe þai founden made, Was ful of gamen and play. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Sir Thopas (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 128 Hys murye men comanded he To make hym bothe game and glee. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 3199 (MED) So thay livede in ioye and game. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1188 Come þe batemen with gamen and gle. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 465 [Bruce] maid yaim gamyn and solace. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. liiiv It is conuenyent for euery man..to haue play and game acordynge to his degre. 1549 J. Hopkins Psalmes of Dauid in Metre xxxiii, in T. Sternhold Al Such Psalmes of Dauid sig. G.vi Our soule in God hath ioy and game. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 58v All game and gle fra me euer adew. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 68 Of gemm or play..was nother want nor skant. 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. A4 Calfe great, in whose conceit Lay much game and glee. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. i. 20 We've invited Nibours auld and young, To pass this Afternoon with Glee and Game. 1771 T. Percy Hermit of Warkworth iii. 33 All Minstrels yet that ever I saw, Are full of game and glee: But thou art sad and woe-begone! 1835 J. Galt Efforts 33 Fairies, 'tis known, are Sprites of glee and game. 1868 T. Wright tr. P. de Langtoft Chron. II. 369 No soul wonders there was game and joy [Fr. jeu et joe] enough. 1877 W. Morris Sigurd i. 64 Tomorn shalt thou have thine answer that thine heart may the lighter be For the hearkening of harp and songcraft, and the dealing with game and glee. 1894 C. H. Herford tr. H. Ibsen Brand i. 28 Thou saw'st it not for game and glee Ere with his cry he startled thee. 1903 R. Proctor tr. Story of Laxdalers 147 After that fared forth the glee and game. 1915 A. S. Cook tr. P. Suchenwirt in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 14 384 When many of them had been slain, and their wives and children captured, great was the joy and game of the men-at-arms. < as lemmas |
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