| 单词 | lie-down |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslie-down lie-down n. colloquial a rest (on a bed, etc.); a form of protest in which the participants lie on the ground and refuse to move. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > rest > in specific posture lie-down1840 stretch1856 sit-down1857 lay-down1897 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > types of demonstration or protest counterprotest1595 student demonstration1856 lie-in1867 rent strike1881 hunger strike1889 march1908 protest march1914 occupation1920 lie-down1936 sit-down1936 sit-in1936 freedom march1947 vigil1956 freedom walk1957 swim-in1960 freedom ride1961 sitting in1961 sleep-out1961 fish-in1964 live-in1964 stall-in1964 sleep-in1965 Long March1967 love-in1967 talk-in1967 write-in1967 die-in1970 dirty protest1979 blanket protest1982 1840 H. Mozley Let. 13 Oct. in D. Mozley Newman Family Lett. (1962) 93 I should be very glad of a lie down but cannot. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. v. 80 You must keep moving all night..or else you goes to a twopenny-rope shop and gets a lie down. 1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence xlvii. 202 When..we hadn't even got the price of a lie down at the Chink's, he'd be as lively as a cricket. 1928 St. J. Ervine Four One-act Plays 65 Yes, Aggie, you go an' 'ave a lie-down, see, and you'll be all right. 1936 Time 7 Dec. Second Sit-Down, Lie-Down... Twelve women and forty-five men, picketing the Berkshire Knitting Mills in Reading, Pennsylvania, by lying flat on its ice-covered front walk..were arrested. 1970 D. Balsdon Oxf. Then & Now iii. v. 114 It is..the small body of demonstrators with whom we are here concerned—in particular the sit-down or lie-down to impede the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors in the exercise of their proper duties on November 5th, 1968. 1974 M. Birmingham You can help Me ii. 43 I won't risk our clients to you in your concussed state... Why don't you go and have a little lie-down? < as lemmas |
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