| 单词 | birth throe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirth throe b. In sense 4, frequently denoting the pain of childbirth, as birth pang, birth throe, etc. Often figurative or in figurative contexts.Recorded earliest in birth time n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > labour or pains cothec1000 throea1200 pining throesc1225 travailc1300 showera1350 paina1398 travailinga1400 throng1540 labouring1598 travail pang1652 travail pain1662 labour pains1703 mother-pain1709 mother-pang1710 breeding sicknessa1714 bearing pain1787 troublea1825 birth throe1837 a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Claud.) (2009) 187 Þat was mydwyf to me in my bythe-tyme [read byrthe-tyme; a1500 Gough burthtyme]. 1666 F. Teate Disc. Prov. 12.5 ii. xxiv. 377 Never had Mother sorrow in her Birth-pangs for a Son; like my Sorrow. 1745 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave IX. 461 Such a painful irritation..about the genitals may easily bring on the birth-pains. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iv. iv. 189 And so, with death-throes and birth-throes, a new one is to be born. 1913 Trans. 15th Internat. Congr. Hygiene & Demography II. i. 518 Birth assistance to paupers (payment to the midwife and for the bandages) is everywhere given by the communal authorities as not actual poor relief. 2019 Times (Nexis) 26 Jan. 11 John Kennedy Toole's novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, was published in 1980 after the most painful birth pangs in literary history. < as lemmas |
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