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单词 in the green tree
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in the green tree
P1. in the green tree [after Luke 23:31, post-classical Latin in viridi ligno (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek ἐν τῷ ὑγρῷ ξύλῳ] : under conditions of ease or plenty.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > in prosperous condition [phrase] > in easy circumstances > in conditions not involving stress or hardship
in the green treeOE
well at easec1330
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xxiii. 31 Quia si in uiridi ligno haec faciunt,in arido quid fiet : forðon uel gif in groene tree ðas doað in drygi uel in alde huæd bið uel worðes?
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 31 Forþam gif hig on grenum treowe þas þing doð, hwæt doð hig on þam drigean?
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxiii. 31 If thei don thes thingis in a grene tree, what schal be don in a drye?
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 16663 (MED) Quen suilk in grene tre es wroght, in dri sal mikel mare.
a1450 (a1400) Medit. Life & Passion of Christ (BL Add.) (1921) l. 1805 Ihesu seyde..‘Siþþe þei don þus in grene tre, Whan it sereþ how shal it be?’
1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 11 The dangerous effects of this haue appeared, not in the greene tree only, in young heads, but in men of constant age, and great place in the Church.
1873 W. Bagehot Lombard St. x. 273 That which happened so marvelously in the green tree may happen also in the dry.
1890 W. E. Norris Adrian Vidal xiv If this was done in the green tree, what would be done in the dry?
1919 R. M. MacIver Labor in Changing World ii. 35 If these things happened in the green tree of abundant employment at good wages.., what shall be done now in the dry?
2009 T. Cahill Saint on Death Row vi. 129 If they do this in the green tree of Pennsylvania, the racially stacked juries of dry-tree Texas should come as no surprise.
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