| 单词 | long account |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong account long account n. (a) (a statement showing) a considerable sum of money due; now chiefly figurative; (b) the action or an act of accounting to God after death for (one's) conduct in life; the Last Judgement (see account n. 7) (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse world's endeOE dayOE doomsdayc975 world-endOE 'pocalypseOE last dayc1275 judgementa1325 assize1340 Great Dayc1350 accounta1400 day of retributiona1400 latter day1533 Judgement Day1544 audit1548 after-reckoning1567 revelation-day1654 Fifth monarchy1655 long account1665 account day1671 kingdom come1858 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 eschaton1935 1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India i. 25 So they were wont to deal with those Hackney-men, with whom the Nation has always long account [It. conti lunghi] for such matters. 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. X. xiv. vii. 336 The Dutch..brought in a long account likewise, which they swelled to an immense sum. 1806 Christian's Mag. 1 173 Life is ebbing fast away, and he is just going to his ‘long account’. 1839 G. P. R. James Gentleman of Old School I. v. 127 You are running up a long account against us. 1934 Manch. Guardian 23 Mar. 22/1 Absalom Smeath is only trying to do a little good before he is called to his long account. 2008 E. Abel tr. A. Shapira Yigal Allon, Native Son iv. 97 He had a long account to settle with Lubya. < as lemmas |
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