| 单词 | odd corner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasodd corner b. Of a place: situated apart from the general body of a larger place or thing; out of the way. Chiefly in odd corner. Cf. sense A. 7b. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > set apart or out of the way anglea1325 nooka1425 retreatc1500 odd corner1576 recess1611 off-corner1793 cubby1868 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. L. Vives in Panoplie Epist. 402 Being but a private man, and shutt up close in an odde corner. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 10 Vs to this od corner thee wynd tempestuus hurled. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 224 In an odde Angle of the Isle. View more context for this quotation 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 645 He was constrained to..seeke odde corners for his safety. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. Concl. 332 By the time of Justinian..the penal law had been crammed into an odd corner of the civil. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 105 From some odd corner of the brain. 1877 H. James American x. 167 The room was illumined..by half a dozen candles, placed in odd corners, at a great distance apart. 1911 K. D. Wiggin Mother Carey xiv. 124 Dozens of shelves in odd spaces helped much in the tidy stowing away of household articles. 1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds xi. 156 Little pockets of phragmites had sprung up in the odd corners and shallow bays all round the main [gravel] pit. 2001 Org. Gardening Jan. 12/3 The former two [sc. courgettes and tomatoes] are..in odd corners elsewhere in the garden, while radishes will be catch-cropped wherever space arises. < as lemmas |
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