| 单词 | hell-door |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell-door hell-door n. [compare Middle High German helletor (German Höllentor)] the gate or entrance of hell; a place that may lead to hell; cf. hell gate n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > entrance to hell-doorOE hell gateOE gates of hellc1000 hell-mouthOE mouthOE OE Guthlac A 559 Hwæðre hine gebrohton bolgenmode, wraðe wræcmæcgas, wuldres cempan, halig husulbearn, æt heldore. a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 182 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 225 (MED) Brecð nafre eft crist helle dure [a1225 Lamb. helle gate] for lesen hem of bende. a1400 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 53 (MED) Helle dore he brak wiþ his fot. 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iv. i. 50 Ay, that's Hell-door, and my damnation's in the inside. 1891 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. (rev. ed.) 34 The soul disincarnate Hunts on to hell-door. 1939 PMLA 54 356 Such anachronisms, like that..which represents the speaker as biding in bonds under hell-doors at the birth of Christ. < as lemmas |
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