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

b. Chiefly Scottish. In various figurative compounds, as ravelled hasp, ravelled pirn, ravelled skein, etc.: a complex situation, a knotty problem, a difficult puzzle.

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a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 73 Ane evil reavild hesp is ill to red.

1637 Fleming in A. Whyte Rutherford (1894) xxiii. 201 My inward life is a ravelled hesp and I need guidance and direction.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 336 How to picke out an end out of the ravelled skeine.

1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 26 Providence seems a ravel'd Hasp.

1771 ‘Muscipula Sen.’ Curious Remarks Hist. Manch. 47 But as these antique curious Anecdotes may possibly be disputed by some Ignoramus's, I'll leave this ravell'd Skein to be untwisted by infallible Antiquarians.

1787 A. Shirrefs Jamie & Bess ii. ii. 16 Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn.

1806 J. Cook Simple Strains 99 De'il gin her neck were in a girn! She's left me wi' a ravel'd pirn.

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 115 Speak her fair and canny, or we will have a ravelled hasp on the yarn-windles.

1874 G. H. Calvert Maid of Orleans iii. v. 70 Man were a raveled skein, Not to be disentangled, did his threads Not wind themselves upon the long hereafter.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxiii. 282 I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind.

1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 96 The student..likit to redd oot the ravell'd hanks o' ither folk's yarn.

1998 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 May The ravelled skein La Plante unwinds, involves an international artscam and past tormented relationships.

单词	ravelled pirn
释义	> as lemmas ravelled pirn b. Chiefly Scottish. In various figurative compounds, as ravelled hasp, ravelled pirn, ravelled skein, etc.: a complex situation, a knotty problem, a difficult puzzle. ΚΠ a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 73 Ane evil reavild hesp is ill to red. 1637 Fleming in A. Whyte Rutherford (1894) xxiii. 201 My inward life is a ravelled hesp and I need guidance and direction. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 336 How to picke out an end out of the ravelled skeine. 1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 26 Providence seems a ravel'd Hasp. 1771 ‘Muscipula Sen.’ Curious Remarks Hist. Manch. 47 But as these antique curious Anecdotes may possibly be disputed by some Ignoramus's, I'll leave this ravell'd Skein to be untwisted by infallible Antiquarians. 1787 A. Shirrefs Jamie & Bess ii. ii. 16 Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn. 1806 J. Cook Simple Strains 99 De'il gin her neck were in a girn! She's left me wi' a ravel'd pirn. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. v. 115 Speak her fair and canny, or we will have a ravelled hasp on the yarn-windles. 1874 G. H. Calvert Maid of Orleans iii. v. 70 Man were a raveled skein, Not to be disentangled, did his threads Not wind themselves upon the long hereafter. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxiii. 282 I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind. 1910 C. Fraser Glengonnar 96 The student..likit to redd oot the ravell'd hanks o' ither folk's yarn. 1998 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 May The ravelled skein La Plante unwinds, involves an international artscam and past tormented relationships. extracted from ravelledraveledadj.² < as lemmas
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