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单词 the livelong day
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the livelong day (also night)
1. As an intensified form of long. Of a period of time: very long or apparently very long; whole, entire. Chiefly in the livelong day (also night). See also live adj.2
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the livelong day (also night)a1450
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the livelong day (also night)a1450
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxi. l. 70 (MED) And thus vppon the yl stood Nasciens there Al the live long day In this Manere.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxxix. l. 319 (MED) Al that leve longe Nyht Into the Se he loked forth Ryht.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 832 (MED) Thus thai hurteled to-gedere Alle the lefe longe daye.
a1500 Tomas of Ersseldoune (Cambr. Ff.5.48) (1875) l. 127 (MED) Þou marris me here þis lefe long day.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 85 Thus haue I tolld ye most of my trade, al the leeue long day.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. vii. 65 He touch't no meat of all this liue-long day.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. v. 1462 Where dreary owles do shrike the liue-long night.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 263 For though it seems so little a time..it hath been a whole live-long night.
1743 Hist. Wks. Learned Mar. 177 The simple Shepherd, with his Second-Self his watchful Dog, all the live-long Year tends his harmless Flock.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxxiii, in Poems 21 Or lee-lang nights, wi' crabbet leuks, Pore owre the devil's pictur'd beuks.
1787 F. Burney Diary June (1842) III. 383 This was the last day of freedom for the whole livelong summer!
1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. 77 The live long summer day She at the house end sits.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. 25 He watched there the lee-lang night.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 35 It ill becomes a chief To sleep the livelong night.
1935 I. Gershwin & D. Heyward in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 240/3 Maybe we is po', mis'able sinners, But we certainly tries all de livelong day To follow Yo' teachin's, Lawd.
1960 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 22 Nov. 8 (cartoon caption) He rolled an' tossed th' livelong night an' couldn't git a wink of sleep.
1997 O. P. Adisa It begins with Tears Prol. 4 All the live-long day, Devil and She-Devil were at it.
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