单词 | it snows |
释义 | > as lemmasit snows 1. intransitive. it snows, snow falls. Also occasionally with snow as subject.Examples of the strong forms are given under β. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > snow or fall (of snow) [verb (intransitive)] snewc725 it snowsc1330 snitterc1400 α. β. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 13551 Also þikke as snow þen [v.r. þat]snew, Or al so hail þat stormes blew.1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. 342 Also it rayned, blewe, & snewe, that it was a mervaylouse yvell wether.?1536 R. Copland Hye Way to Spyttell Hous sig. Aiij For it had snowen and frosen very strong.1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) I had as lieue hee tolde mee it snew.1640 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavelli Life C. Castracani in tr. N. Machiavelli Prince 279 Always and in all seasons, whether it rain'd or snew, he went with his head uncover'd.1695 A. Wood Life 30 Jan. On T[uesday] the 29 of Jan. it snew all the day.a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Snew, the Preterit of snow. York.1870 F. P. Verney Lettice Lisle xxvii. 295 It never snew once last winter.1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 131/2 It's snawn all way here.a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 6450 Whan it snoweþ, oiþer rineþ. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 1644 Sche koude make..to hayle and snowe, And frese also. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 665 Floctat, snawes... Ningit, snawes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 462/1 Snowyn, ningit. 1486 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 57 And ther schall it snaw by craft, to be made of waffrons in maner of snaw. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 724/1 In wynter, whan it snoweth, it is good syttynge by a good fyre. 1592 Arden of Feversham v. i As we went, it snowed al the way. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 45 Where it is counted for a wonder, that..it was cold or snowed. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 4 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Though it were very bad weather, and snow'd all night. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 322 The Barometer sunk to the bottom, it Rain'd and Snow'd. 1772 T. Smith Jrnl. (1849) 287 Though it has snowed very often this month, there has been no deep snows. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvi. 21 Glad to hear it rained, or snowed, or blew, or froze. 1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 237 If it..snows as hard there as here. < as lemmas |
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