| 单词 | red as fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred as fire P1. In similative comparisons, as red as blood, red as a cherry, red as fire, red as a rose, etc. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 7955 Þe oder is milc-whit..þe oðer ræd alse blod [c1300 so read so blod]. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 3179 Yfourmed as a dragon as red ase fur. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 882 (MED) He..stared..a-stoneyd..and eft red as rose. c1400 (?c1308) Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 140 Þe kyng stood, ycloþed al in rede: murre he was, of þat blee red as blood. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lv. sig. Mi The ymage..blusshed as red as sendall. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 49 With a face as red as fire. 1720 J. Gay Poems Several Occasions II. 376 Thy trembling lip..Red as the cherry from the Kentish tree. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere i, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 7 The Bride hath pac'd into the Hall, Red as a rose is she. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine ii The tip of her nose as red as fire with sniffling and weeping. 1963 S. Cloete Rags of Glory xxxix. 316 The Englishmen were sunburned, red as lobsters. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth (2001) ii. 29 So Ryan was red as a beetroot. < as lemmas |
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