| 单词 | of yore |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof yore 4. of yore: extracted from yoreadv.adj. a. in adv. use: Of old, in time long past, anciently, formerly. Also †of yore ago(ne), †long yore: long ago. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > long ago yorec900 for longOE langer1303 long agoc1350 far1362 for yorea1375 of yore ago(ne)a1375 long time1376 of olda1393 anciently1502 langsyne?a1513 oldlya1513 in old season1582 old1609 antiquely1652 then-a-days1688 (the) year one1754 way back1870 in yore1876 way back when1921 a1375 Joseph Arim. l. 317 Werdes of Ebreu weren I-writen of ȝore. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 13 For that he say it nat of ȝore a-go. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ix. xiv. 202 b/2 She was the same that of yore agon, Unworthelye sate in Peters place. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 116 The sayncts Which han be dead of yore [Gloss long agoe]. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxviii. sig. E3 To shew faulse Art what beauty was of yore . View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 38 Thee bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore, To solitary Saturn bore. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 591 A form, not now gymnastic as of yore. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. i. 1 Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley. 1862 C. Kingsley Lett. (1877) I. 477 I have defended the right of combination among the work~men, in hope that they would become wiser than of yore. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 19 Proud Cecil Castlemaine was yet prouder than of yore. b. in adj. use: Belonging to time long past, ancient, former. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > long-past or old oldOE ancient1366 yorec1400 antique1532 of yore1598 long-ago1603 far gone1829 way back1885 1598 Mucedorus sig. E2v In time of yore. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 His Bishoprick of yore. 1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 209 Well sung sweet Ovid, in the Days of yore. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) i. v. 134 This is altogether different from the village politics of yore. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ii. 51 In days of yore how fortunately fared The Minstrel! View more context for this quotation 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 82 The great tree..used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore. 1883 R. Whitelaw tr. Sophocles Philoctetes 1151 For now I hold not in my hands The mighty shafts of yore. c. With other prepositions: e.g. †for yore (obsolete); in yore (pseudo-archaic). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > long ago yorec900 for longOE langer1303 long agoc1350 far1362 for yorea1375 of yore ago(ne)a1375 long time1376 of olda1393 anciently1502 langsyne?a1513 oldlya1513 in old season1582 old1609 antiquely1652 then-a-days1688 (the) year one1754 way back1870 in yore1876 way back when1921 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4174 Hire mi sone is founde þat sche for ȝore saide was sonk in þe see. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 586 Ȝet oþer þer werne..Þat swange & swat for long ȝore. 1876 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids v. 865 In yore agone. < as lemmas |
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