| 单词 | middle life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiddle life middle life n. (a) = middle age n. 1; †(b) the life of the middle classes (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > middle age middle lifec1330 middle agec1400 mid-agec1450 middle eldc1450 middle yearsc1450 meridian1607 a certain age1748 mid-life1818 middle term1839 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > middle class or bourgeoisie > life of middle life1719 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 5392 (MED) Þis were noble kniȝtes fiue, & alle of midel liue. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 1 It might be allowed me to have had experience of every State of middle Life. 1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Odes in Wks. Horace (1767) I. vi. 31 Horace is only fit to celelebrate revels, and take pictures from middle life. 1779 S. Johnson Otway in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 8 It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life. 1855 H. Martineau Autobiogr. (1877) II. 115 The scene [of Deerbrook] being laid in middle life. 1895 Bookman Oct. 23/1 The king..does his best in a toilsome old age to mitigate the disastrous effects of the blunders of his middle life. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxii. 573 The disease occurs in middle life. 1990 A. Stevens On Jung viii. 165 Some people manage to slip through middle life without acknowledging that anything particularly significant is happening to them. < as lemmas |
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