英语词汇“prone-descending”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C1. With present participles in the sense ‘downward’ (cf. sense 4), as prone-descending, prone-rushing.

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1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation i. sig. B.i And now through midst of heauen hye sir Phœbe had tane his flight..All headlong prone descending downe, where Vesper first doth perce, The duskie cloudes.]

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 82 Floods Prone-rushing from the Clouds.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 102 A Deluge of sonorous Hail, Or prone-descending Rain.

1810 L. Aikin Poems 119 Ye snow-clad Alps, whose mighty mound, Great Nature's adamantine wall, In vain opposed its awful bound To check the prone-descending Gaul.

1848 H. Mann Let. Mar. in Slavery 5 In their upward-looking aspiration.., or in their downward-looking, prone-rushing, and brutish appetites and passions, what shall these millions of our fellow-creatures be?

1861 Times 22 June 9/5 Who will take a stretch into the country this fine hot breezy day..where..the exhilarating air tempers the prone descending rays?

1918 C. A. Smith Odes & Sonnets 22 The vast, Prone-rushing constellations of the Law, Thunder and press behind thee at the brink.

单词	prone-descending
释义	> as lemmas prone-descending C1. With present participles in the sense ‘downward’ (cf. sense 4), as prone-descending, prone-rushing. ΚΠ 1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation i. sig. B.i And now through midst of heauen hye sir Phœbe had tane his flight..All headlong prone descending downe, where Vesper first doth perce, The duskie cloudes.] 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 82 Floods Prone-rushing from the Clouds. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 102 A Deluge of sonorous Hail, Or prone-descending Rain. 1810 L. Aikin Poems 119 Ye snow-clad Alps, whose mighty mound, Great Nature's adamantine wall, In vain opposed its awful bound To check the prone-descending Gaul. 1848 H. Mann Let. Mar. in Slavery 5 In their upward-looking aspiration.., or in their downward-looking, prone-rushing, and brutish appetites and passions, what shall these millions of our fellow-creatures be? 1861 Times 22 June 9/5 Who will take a stretch into the country this fine hot breezy day..where..the exhilarating air tempers the prone descending rays? 1918 C. A. Smith Odes & Sonnets 22 The vast, Prone-rushing constellations of the Law, Thunder and press behind thee at the brink. extracted from proneadj. < as lemmas
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