英语词汇“rung of the ladder”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. figurative or in figurative context. A step or stage in an ascending progression or structure, now esp. in a class or career structure. Frequently in rung of the ladder and variants.

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c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 44 And [the fiend] leith a laddre þere-to, of lesynges aren þe ronges [v.r.longes].

?a1450 Memoriale Credencium (Tanner 201) (1979) 113 (MED) Þe rongon of þe laddere buþ þe vij werkes of mercy.

1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 21 The religious Founder thereof hath fashioned out the rongues of a ladder to heaven.

1670 Earl of Clarendon Tracts (1727) 176 It is a vow of obedience.., as the upper and highest wrung of the ladder, to the pope.

1794 J. Courtenay Present State France & Italy 64 By this ladder of Jacob, we mount to the skies; The sides are of faith, and the rungs are of hope.

1865 Sat. Rev. 16 Dec. 766 On the lowest rung of the Christmas ladder stand the Infant Books.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 1 One of the lowest rungs of Memory's ladder.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1136 We have now climbed the evolutionary ladder of the plant kingdom and reached the highest rung.

1979 J. Harvey Plate Shop xxiii. 111 As Works Manager he was only two rungs below director.

2003 K. Kenny New Direct. in Irish-Amer. Hist. 102 They occupied the lowest rungs of the social ladder and worked largely in menial, unskilled occupations.

单词	rung of the ladder
释义	> as lemmas rung of the ladder b. figurative or in figurative context. A step or stage in an ascending progression or structure, now esp. in a class or career structure. Frequently in rung of the ladder and variants. ΚΠ c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. 44 And [the fiend] leith a laddre þere-to, of lesynges aren þe ronges [v.r.longes]. ?a1450 Memoriale Credencium (Tanner 201) (1979) 113 (MED) Þe rongon of þe laddere buþ þe vij werkes of mercy. 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 21 The religious Founder thereof hath fashioned out the rongues of a ladder to heaven. 1670 Earl of Clarendon Tracts (1727) 176 It is a vow of obedience.., as the upper and highest wrung of the ladder, to the pope. 1794 J. Courtenay Present State France & Italy 64 By this ladder of Jacob, we mount to the skies; The sides are of faith, and the rungs are of hope. 1865 Sat. Rev. 16 Dec. 766 On the lowest rung of the Christmas ladder stand the Infant Books. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 1 One of the lowest rungs of Memory's ladder. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1136 We have now climbed the evolutionary ladder of the plant kingdom and reached the highest rung. 1979 J. Harvey Plate Shop xxiii. 111 As Works Manager he was only two rungs below director. 2003 K. Kenny New Direct. in Irish-Amer. Hist. 102 They occupied the lowest rungs of the social ladder and worked largely in menial, unskilled occupations. extracted from rungn. < as lemmas
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