| 单词 | 'scape |
| 释义 | > as lemmas'scape 1. An act of escaping; = escape n.1 archaic. Now chiefly in hairbreadth scape, after Shakespeare: see hairbreadth n. (Often written 'scape.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] scapea1300 escapec1300 escapingc1325 scapingc1374 evasiona1464 escapal1634 escapement1824 lam1897 a1300 Cursor Mundi 23730 All sal we rin into his rape, we wat þat þar mai li na scape. a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 4273 He haþ ylore his foo..And bymeneþ his skape sore. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. ij/2 That the sherefs of london bee amerced for a scape of thefes at C. s. only. 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xiii. f. 48 You shall seldome see a Russe a traueller, except he be with some Ambassadour, or that he make a scape out of his Countrie. 1653 D. Osborne Lett. to Sir W. Temple (2002) 69 But a Propos de Monsieur Smith, what a scape has he made of my Lady Banbury. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 80 To hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. 1739 G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda 77 How great our Scape, who never yet knew Man! 1897 Church Quarterly 11 The romantic scapes..of St. Athanasius gave birth to no literature of song and legend like the wanderings of Prince Charlie. < as lemmas |
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