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单词 a flat fall
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a flat fall
a. Chiefly of a person: Prostrate; with the body at full length. †Also in a flat fall.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [adjective] > with body at full length
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c1320 Sir Beues 1040 A felde him flat to grounde.
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles ii. 183 [The birds] ffell with her ffetheris fflat vppon þe erthe..and mercy be-souȝte.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 23 Sche..flatt on þe ground cryed: ‘god..haue mercy on me!’
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 838 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 121 The golk..Fflang him flat in ye fyre.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xlix. E They shal fall before the wt their faces flat vpon the earth.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 16 I'le fall flat, Perchance he will not minde me. View more context for this quotation
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 138 None parting from him without flat falles, or apparant losse of honour.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 56 Thus a great wound is called a scratch; a flat fall, a foile.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 319 He laid me flat on the Ground.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 290 I order'd every Man..to lye flat upon their Bellies till we had receiv'd the Fire of the Enemy.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxx. 411 The hunter is flat and motionless.
1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) iv. 72 I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
1888 R. Kipling Daughter of Regiment in Plain Tales from Hills 179 That night a big wind blew..the tents flat.
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