| 单词 | a lease of life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa (new) lease of life 2. figurative with reference to the permanence of occupation guaranteed by a lease; esp. in a (new) lease of life. Also, the term during which possession or occupation is guaranteed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] > rejuvenation rejuvenescencea1631 rejuvenescencya1661 rejuvenation1746 a (new) lease of life1853 c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxi. 44 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 118 Of my graunt they had enioy'd A lease of blisse with endlesse date. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxlvi. sig. I3 Why so large cost hauing so short a lease, Dost thou vpon thy fading mansion spend? a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 115 Our high plac'd Macbeth Shall liue the Lease of Nature. View more context for this quotation 1628 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 36 Remember of what age your daughter was, and that just so long was your lease of her. 1640 J. Shirley Constant Maid iv. iii The Statutes and the Magna Charta have taken a lease at his tongues end. 1641 J. Shirley Cardinal iv. i Time has took a lease But for three lives I hope. 1645 J. Milton Epit. Marchioness of Winchester in Poems 25 [Thou] That to give the world encrease, Shortned hast thy own lives lease. 1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 4 I wonder, for how many lives my Lord Hoptons Soule took the Lease of his Body. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 525 He..the same Lease of Life on the same Terms renews. 1706 E. Baynard in J. Floyer Anc. Ψυχρολουσια Revived (rev. ed.) ii. 8 My Lady Lloyd's Case.., who when the vital Flame was even blinking in the Socket,..had a new Life put into her Lease. 1853 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 227 She was going to have a new lease of life with better health. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiii. 128 The suspense seemed to have taken a new lease. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 397 Wherever Estates still existed, they seemed to have gained a new lease of life. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 685 Men and women, who looked, as the saying goes, as if you could take a lease of their lives. < as lemmas |
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