单词 | night and day |
释义 | > as lemmasnight and day (a) night and day: by night and by day; continually, constantly, incessantly. Cf. day and night at day n. Phrases 6c(a). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continually (in action) [phrase] night and dayeOE day and nightOE without(en) blina1300 morning, noon, and nightc1325 but stintc1330 by and byc1330 early and latec1330 without ceasec1330 without ceasinga1340 withouten hoc1374 without releasec1400 still opece1422 in a ranec1480 never ceasable?1518 without remorse1555 every foot (and anon)1561 round1652 year in and year out1819 twenty-four hours a day1914 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) viii. 6 (71) Benedicite noctes et dies dominum : bledsiað naeht & deg dryhten. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark v. 5 Semper nocte ac die in monumentis et in montibus erat : symle næht & dæge [OE Rushw. on næht & on dæge] in byrgennum uel in fæstnungum & morum wæs. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4694 Beo þu ȝeornfull nihht & daȝȝ To follȝhenn godess wille. c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 14 (MED) Te alde feond..scheoteð niht & dei his earewen..towart tin heorte. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 91 (MED) Niȝt and dai hi libbiþ in sore. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 1839 Bot nyht and day as I am now I schal alwey be such to yow. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 10421 (MED) Sco..Weped and mornd night and dai. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 164 He puttis..gude wache and warde apon him nycht and day. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. eijv Thynke what I say, my sonne, nyght and day. ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.iiv I euer with them went..Nyght & daye towarde the waye of ryghtwysenes. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) i. i He blessed is who..night and day..calls..[God's law] to marking mind. 1601 Dundee Shipping Papers in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. X. 70 That hellpit to keep the schip naycht and day. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Tim. i. 3 I haue remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day . View more context for this quotation c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 277 Letteris, nicht and day, cuming fra the prouest and balleis of Abirdein. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 233 I sat and cried and tormented my self Night and Day. 1788 T. Jefferson Jrnl. 11 Apr. in Papers (1956) XIII. 19 The floats of wood which go with the current only, go 1½ mile an hour. They go night and day. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 336 Maybe..rowing night and day..[he] got home in a safe skin. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 213 These..are my water privileges; and night and day, year in year out, they grind such grist as I carry to them. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxii. 340 Night and day, too, the telegraph clicked with disastrous news and anxious inquiry. 1932 C. Porter Night & Day (song) 6 Night and day, under the hide of me, There's an oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. 1962 V. Grissom in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 119 We were working all around the clock during this period, running tests night and day. 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 142 Eddie, who taught me how to salsa, who lectured me night and day about human rights in Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina. < as lemmas |
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