| 单词 | runner-away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunner-away runner-away n. a person who has run away; a runaway, (in later use) esp. from one's family. ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 297 Lepare, or rennar a-wey, fugax, fugitivus. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxvv The Frenchmen knowyng by these good runners away of ye erles approchyng. 1607 A. Willet Loidoromastix xi. 167 The departure of the flier or runner away. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxii. 332 You conspirators, and hiders, and runners-away, should know better than that. 1921 L. Golding Forward from Babylon ii. vii. 128 At this moment..the idea of running away occurred to him. He had lately been reading the triumphant career of a runner-away. 1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar vii. 53 He certainly wasn't a runner-away by nature. He was a sensitive child but very brave. 2006 C. Bateson Being Bee (2007) 115 Oh, come on, Harley, tell me. As a fellow runner-away. < as lemmas |
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