| 单词 | it freezes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasit freezes 1. impersonal. it freezes: the local temperature of the atmosphere is such that water becomes ice. †Also quasi-personal with a subject (frost, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > be cold [verb (intransitive)] > become cold > freeze it freezes971 congealc1400 gealc1440 frigitate1635 conglaciate1646 take1781 catch1879 971 Blickl. Hom. 93 Men steorran magon geseon swa sutole swa on niht ðonne hit swiðe freoseþ. a1000 Gnomic Verses (Bosw.) Forst sceal freosan. c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxii. 128 Gelat, hit fryst. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 620 An his hou never ne vor-lost, Wan hit snuith, ne wan hit frost. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 69 When þe forst freseþ muche chele he byd. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 236 If the month of juil shall frese. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A viii. 115 Whon þe Forst freseþ foode hem [þe foules] bi-houeþ. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 77 He shal neuer take harm by colde..thaugh it snowed stormed or frore neuer so sore. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxv Still it frised. 1649 R. Hodges Plainest Direct. 8 If it freez, put on your frees jacket. 1748 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage I. 153 It snowed all night, and froze very hard. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. 40 A road in the wet snow, which, should it afterwards freeze, would be sufficiently hard to bear the horses. < as lemmas |
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