| 单词 | at the stake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat the stake a. With things which are the objects or centres of special activities, and are more or less put for the activities themselves: at meat = eating; at the bar = acting as a barrister, or as one on trial; at grass = grazing; at the stake, at the wheel, at the plough, etc.; at bat: see bat n.2 3d. ΚΠ OE Beowulf 1110 Æt þæm áde wæs eþgesýne swátfáh syrce. c1220 Hali Meid. 37 Seoð þe cat at the fliche and te hund at te huide. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 285 To be of bold word atte mete. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 104 And ben his pilgryme atte plow for pore mennes sake. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 283 Forto spende it at the wijn. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. l. 11 As fat as the heifer at grass. 1773 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 91 He must be a great English lawyer, from having been so long at the bar. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. vi. 118 And idled away the mornings at billiards. View more context for this quotation 1880 J. A. Froude Bunyan 4 His father brought him up at his own trade. < as lemmas |
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