| 单词 | the deep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe deep 3. the deep: extracted from deepn. a. The deep sea, the ocean, the main. poetic and rhetorical (without plural.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > ocean, open sea, or deep sea room seaeOE seawaya1000 the deepc1000 deptha1382 oceana1387 mid-sea?a1425 profound?a1425 main seaa1530 high seas1566 main1579 main flood1596 the deep1598 deep sea1626 dipsey1626 mid-ocean1697 blue water1803 haaf1809 salt chuck1868 wide1916 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) v. 4 Teoh hit [scip] on dypan [c1160 Hatton G. deopan]. c1315 Shoreham 146 Fisches ine the depe. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 357 I schal drenchen in þe deepe. a1400–50 Alexander 64 Dromonds dryfes ouer þe depe. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 15 They shall fetch thee Iewels, from the deepe . View more context for this quotation 1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. I. ii. ix. 183 The swelling waues of the Deepe. 1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Burial at Sea We therefore commit his body to the Deep. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 26. 171 Monsters of the Deep. 1801 T. Campbell Ye Mariners of Eng. iv Britannia needs no bulwark, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 65 Barks To cross the dark blue deep. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > ocean, open sea, or deep sea room seaeOE seawaya1000 the deepc1000 deptha1382 oceana1387 mid-sea?a1425 profound?a1425 main seaa1530 high seas1566 main1579 main flood1596 the deep1598 deep sea1626 dipsey1626 mid-ocean1697 blue water1803 haaf1809 salt chuck1868 wide1916 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades i. 310 They..cast the offal of all to the deeps. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος Ep. Ded. sig. a3v (note) Amongst the Lords wonders in the Deeps. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 372 The dangers of the deeps he tries. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 410 The monstrous wonders of the deeps. c. The abyss or depth of space. (Sometimes a figurative use of a.) ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > space > [noun] heavensOE heavenOE space1561 space1582 ether1587 the deep1598 depth1613 void1667 empyrean1879 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. i. 51 I can cal spirits from the vasty deep . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 168 Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space. View more context for this quotation 1794 W. Blake Tyger in Songs of Experience in Compl. Poetry & Prose (1982) 24 In what distant deeps or skies, Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 1820 P. B. Shelley To Skylark in Prometheus Unbound 201 The blue deep thou wingest. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 114 And thunder through the sapphire deeps. 1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith iv. 192 That boundless deep of space. d. Cricket. Elliptical for deep field (see deep adj. Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > parts of field long field1828 leg1833 silly point1862 deep field1870 country1878 infield1898 the deep1906 rough1952 1906 G. W. Beldam & C. B. Fry Great Bowlers & Fielders 438 A fine example of the throw in from ‘the deep’. 1924 H. de Sélincourt Cricket Match iv. 89 One catch in the deep which he had held in a school cricket match..was still vividly remembered. 1954 J. H. Fingleton Ashes crown Year 112 Lindwall having nobody in the deep. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 85 Graveney, chasing one in the deep, pulled a muscle and left the field. to the deep b. Cornish Mining. ‘The lower portion of a vein; used in the phrase to the deep, i.e. downward upon the vein’ (Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881). ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 126 Deep, Corn[wall]. The lower portion of a vein; used in the phrase to the deep, i. e., downward upon the vein. < as lemmas |
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