| 单词 | between sun and sun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbetween (also betwixt) sun and sun b. from sun to sun: between sunrise and sunset, during the day. Also †between (also betwixt) sun and sun. Cf. sense 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adverb] dayseOE adayc1275 adaysc1400 a daytala1500 from sun to suna1500 up-sun1825 the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > [adverb] > all day (all) the long day (also night, etc.)c1275 from sun to suna1500 from morn to (also till) eve (or night)1598 daylong1614 a1500 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 319 And so the xix. day ys xiiij. owres longe and half, fro son to son. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. ii. 68 One score 'twixt Sun, and Sun, Madam's enough for you. View more context for this quotation 1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 141 Take here day for the day-light betweene sunne and sunne. 1636 R. Skinner in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1871) II. Ps. xxvii. 11 If a man, travelling in the King's highway, be robbed between sun and sun. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. 279 They always robbed between Sun and Sun. 1873 Trans. Wisconsin State Agric. Soc. 11 431 We find her at work early and late, verifying the old rhyme—that ‘Man must work from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done.’ 1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xi. 98 What you mean, milk a-plenty? They ain't a extry drop left from sun to sun. 2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 May a8 He spoke about his father, who ‘worked from sun to sun to carve his livelihood out of the Everglades’. < as lemmas |
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