| 单词 | pastures new |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspastures new c. A field or area of thought or activity. Esp. in pastures new (in allusion to quot. 1638). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > pastures new pastures new1579 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 42 They will..driue vs to poysoned pastures. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 25 in Justa Edouardo King To morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 429 When homeward from their wat'ry Pastures born, They sing, and Asia's Lakes their Notes return. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 105 There are..who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away The comfortable green and juicy hay From human pastures. 1887 S. Newland Far North Country 33 When horse-stealing, horse-swindling and horse-sweating are put down then the ‘spieler’ must reform or seek pastures new. 1901 Scotsman 5 Mar. 9/3 The pleasant literary pastures of Oxford's bookshops. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 614 Wrapped in the arms of Murphy, as the adage has it, dreaming of fresh fields and pastures new. 1975 L. Gillen Return to Deepwater i. 6 He had always resolutely refused to leave his native heath..and..had never felt the need to seek pastures new. 2003 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 9 Mar. Mr Crombie has already moved on to fresh pastures forming a ‘singles group’ at St Ninians. < as lemmas |
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