单词 | happy warrior |
释义 | > as lemmashappy warrior happy warrior n. a person undaunted by difficulty (esp. as a conventional designation of a good soldier). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > type of soldier generally > [noun] > good happy warrior1596 1596 Z. Jones tr. M. Barleti Hist. G. Castriot v. 172 I will see from whence he hath that corporall strength and vigour: and in what this happie warriour..doth excell and surpasse all others. 1693 N. Lee in J. Dryden Examen Poeticum iii. 168 Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won The fairest Jewel in the English Crown. 1785 J. Champion tr. Firdawsī Poems viii. 305 With the first dawn the happy warior [sic] rose. 1806 W. Wordsworth Char. Happy Warrior 1 Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? 1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 17 May in In Happy Memory 200 The ‘happy warrior’ who did the deed is in my platoon, one Finlay, and his hair is red. 1924 F. D. Roosevelt in N.Y. Times 27 June 4/3 He [sc. Alfred E. Smith] is the ‘Happy Warrior’ of the political battlefield. 1959 Listener 12 Nov. 843/3 Ernest Jones was a happy warrior. 2006 New Yorker 30 Oct. 51/2 As for Jim Webb, he seemed, by the ending days of the campaign, only to be something less than the Happy Warrior. < as lemmas |
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