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单词 as fast as one might dree
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as fast as one (also feet) might (or may) dree
5. intransitive. With may and might. To have the endurance or strength necessary to continue doing something; to have the strength or ability to do or accomplish something. Chiefly in as fast as one (also feet) might (or may) dree. Obsolete.In early use also transitive with infinitive as object.
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c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 187 Six men beateð hire hwil ha mahten drehen.
c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) l. 552 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 304 Alle þe lordings..Seiden hi ne seȝe neuer wiȝ egȝe Man þat mighte so longe dreghe..Sitten a strok of here King.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1772 Fled as fast homward as fet miȝt drie.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13448 Is noon so siȝty foule of eȝe Ny so fer to fle may dreȝe.
c1440 (c1350) Octovian (Thornton) l. 461 Scho ran ywhils þat scho myght dreghe [c1450 Cambr. whyll sche myght].
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. l. 1890 He liftit his hand-axe hie, And straik als fast as he micht dre.
c1750 4 New Songs & Prophecy iii. 5 He's away to the Hostler's House, Even as fast as he might dree.
1827 W. Motherwell Minstrelsy 59 Carmichael's awa to Margaret's bower, E'en as fast as he may drie.
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