| 单词 | the length of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe length of a. With a demonstrative or other defining word: Distance. the length of: as far as. Now Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] > a distance strikec1330 spacea1382 lengtha1500 starta1552 a good (also great, little, long, etc.) ways1568 a ways1858 the world > space > distance > [phrase] > as far as up to ——944 the length ofa1500 a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 161 Ye myght here the strokes half a myle of length. 1578 Hunnis in Par. Dainty Devices 2 They be the lines that lead the length, How farre my race is for to runne. c1580 Merye Hist. Mylner Abyngton (new ed.) sig. A.iij The mylners house is nere Not the length of a lande. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2251/4 Which we had scarce done when the other three Ships had got our length. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 395 He [Essex] had marched to the length of Exeter. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 71 We had found it very cold before we came this length, but now began to feel the extremity of it. 1776 Ld. Sandwich et al. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. i. p. ccxxi When you get that Length, you are very carefully..to explore, such Rivers..as may appear to be of considerable extent. 1870 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) v. 111 The loan of a horse ‘the length’ of Highgate. 1886 T. L. Kington-Oliphant New Eng. I. 295 In Scotland they say, ‘I will come your length’. < as lemmas |
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