单词 | in good repair |
释义 | > as lemmasin good (bad, excellent, etc.) repair 4. Condition, state. Chiefly in in good (bad, excellent, etc.) repair. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > physical or external condition > good or bad physical condition repair1563 state of repair1760 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Aaa.ii If ye haue anye conscience, in kepinge of necessarye, and godly ordynaunces: kepe your Churches in good repayre. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets iii. sig. Bv That face..Whose fresh repaire if now thou not renewest, Thou doo'st beguile the world. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 114 The castle is yet in good strength and repayre. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 95 One [gate] that was built four hundred years ago, is still in good repair. 1727 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 28) ii. iii. List Offices & Officers 12 Where the Schools for Teaching are, is made up of Low Buildings, and in very bad Repair, being very Old. a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) I. 63 They brought the Creature into sleek Repair, And drove it gently to a neighb'ring Fair. 1785 Daily Universal Reg. 2 Dec. 4/3 (advt.) The Lease of a very convenient roomy Brick Dwelling House..in excellent repair, with very extensive Vaults and Cellarage. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 427 Forty bullock-cars..in such ill repair..that only eleven of them reached Deleitosa. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation Introd. 4 To put the roads and bridges into that state of repair which the depressed situation of commerce..seemed to require. 1886 W. W. Story Fiammetta 48 The house..was now in very bad repair. 1902 B. T. Washington Up from Slavery vi. 110 This building..was in such poor repair that, whenever it rained, one of the older students would..hold an umbrella over me. 1971 P. Gresswell Environment 150 An owner can also be threatened with compulsory purchase if he fails to keep a listed building in reasonable repair. 2001 S. Roaf et al. Ecohouse (2002) v. 115 The longer it can be kept in good repair the better the life-cycle value of the window will have been. < as lemmas |
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