| 单词 | a well of a |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa well of a d. a well of a (place): a place like a well, as being damp and cold or deep and dark. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > a dark place darkc1540 a well of a1843 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [noun] > great or considerable depth > deep place, part, or thing piteOE bottomOE swallowa1100 profundity?a1425 abysmc1475 bisme1483 gulfa1533 abyss1538 fathom1608 profound1640 a well of a1843 subterranean1912 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 55 He then conveyed him..into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xvi. 209 She had gotten it in a great well of a cupboard. 1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance v. iii. 400 It was a well of a place, high black walls going up into the desolate, weeping sky, and quite tiny. 1917 Western Med. Times Sept. 98/1 The ‘laboratory’..might have been described as an old well of a place with a toad singing in a corner. 1999 M. de Villiers Water vii. 131 I went to have supper in a place someone had told me about, deep in the kasbah, a sunken well of a place that seemed to have been converted from a cistern. < as lemmas |
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