| 单词 | as black as coal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas black (in early use also †swart) as coal P1. as black (in early use also †swart) as coal and variants: very black.In early use apparently with reference to sense 2, but now usually associated with sense 4. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as coal coal-blackc1275 as black (in early use also swart) as coala1400 coaly1565 eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxxix. 332 Wyl eft oþ þæt hit sie swa þicce swa molcen & swa sweart swa col. lOE Homily (Faust. A.ix) in R. Willard Two Apocrypha in Old Eng. Homilies (1935) 38 And oþer þara weroda bið swa sweart swa col, and oðer bið beorhtre þonne sunne. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 590 (MED) Þar he tok his gode fole, Also blak so eny cole. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22489 Þe sternes..sal haf tint þair liht, And worde al blak sum ani col. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. i. 7 Now ar we waxen blak as any coyll. 1633 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 103 The visage of our Nazarites, sometime whiter than snow, is now become blacker than a coal. 1770 G. Washington Diary 15 Oct. (1976) II. 290 The soil..as black as a Coal. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy xx. 152 Poor Jolliffe, whose face was burnt as black as a coal by the explosion. 1862 L. Duff-Gordon Lett. from Cape (1925) 94 Vrouw Reits was as black as coal, but so pretty! 1955 ‘P. Dennis’ Auntie Mame v. 101 He had white, white skin and hair as black as coal, short and very curly. 1999 Y. Taylor I was born Slave iv John was as black as a coal. 2007 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 106 289 A huge wolf, black as coal and evil-looking as the devil. < as lemmas |
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