| 单词 | gone-down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgone-down C1. With adverbs, with the sense ‘that has gone ——’ (in uses corresponding to phrasal verbs at go v. Phrasal verbs 1), as gone-down, gone-out, etc. ΚΠ 1828 La Belle Assemblée 1 Aug. 70/1 These are yet the upward rays of the gone-down sun of that great theatrical luminary. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xiv. 120 In the chair before the gone-out fire..was the gentleman whom she sought. 1866 J. R. Lowell in Nation 25 Jan. 106/2 A gone-up man, I've..a plan Of asking your assistance. 1888 W. B. Churchward ‘Blackbirding’ in S. Pacific 213 I shan't get more than the gone-down price. 1907 H. de V. Stacpoole Crimson Azaleas ii. xvi. 136 George..was swaying slightly in his chair, the gone-out cigar still stuck in the side of his mouth. 1916 E. W. Wilcox World Voices 79 (title of poem) The land of the Gone-Away Souls. 1937 D. M. Jones In Parenthesis vi. 136 Private Saunders felt for the gone-out candle-end. 2006 ‘J. le Carré’ Mission Song i. 15 My English voice..hasn't so much as a trace of the gone-away vowels of my dear late father's Irish brogue. < as lemmas |
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