| 单词 | at the stretch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat the stretch a. An unbroken continuance of some one employment, occupation, or condition, during a period of time; an uninterrupted ‘spell’ of work, rest, prosperity, etc. Chiefly in phrase at one or a stretch, upon or on a stretch, rarely at the stretch: without intermission, continuously (during the time specified or implied); [compare German in einer strecke] . ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events dayOE dayOE summer day1563 tempestivity1569 set1633 stretch1689 period1712 run1714 tack1723 spell1827 dreamtime1844 time coursea1867 patch1897 dreaming1932 quality time1972 the world > action or operation > continuing > [noun] > an unbroken continuance of action stretch1689 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adverb] > without cessation fastlyOE without ceasec1330 without ceasinga1340 unceasinglyc1340 incessably1398 dreichlyc1400 restlessc1400 perpetuallyc1475 incessantly1481 uncessantlya1500 incessant1558 ceaselessly?1606 indesinently1651 jugially1654 unintermissively1656 upon or on a stretch1689 at one or a stretch1774 unabatingly1793 at the stretch1867 never-ceasingly1869 1689 London Gaz. No. 2451/3 So [we] continued Battering upon a Strech till five in the Afternoon. 1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 193 God will then proceed to the highest actuation of the Soul..so that her whole Life shall be but one constant Stretch of Thought. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 163 They will trot..between fifty and sixty English miles, at one stretch. 1799 J. King in Corr. W. Fowler (1907) 32 We are much in at Sunderland. We are eight nights in upon a stretch, out of twenty one. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 222 The halt's gane now, unless he has to walk ower mony miles at a stretch. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 2 Sometimes you see level ground on each side of you, for two or three hours at a stretch. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vii. 80 He can snore for fourteen hours on a stretch. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond i We always played seven hours on a stretch. 1851 T. B. Macaulay Let. Aug. in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. xi. 211 I read the last five books at a stretch. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xiii I saw her talking to him for half an hour at the stretch. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 8 His rider..had been in boot and saddle twenty-four hours at the stretch. 1885 Law Times 79 206/1 He was unable..to walk more than five miles at a stretch. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady vii. 214 He..gave us..accounts of the number of hours he had kept on working at a stretch. 1900 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 405 The net remains fixed for periods as long as six hours at a stretch. < as lemmas |
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