英语词汇“to be a-making”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) to be a-making (in same sense). Now chiefly regional.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase]

to be in making?a1425

to be a-making1492

in the making1644

on the stocks1669

1492 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 660 Hys tentys and alys be a-makyng faste and many of them be made.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxx. 143 Ther they brake all [the bridge] to peaces that had been longe a makynge.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. i. 23 All the prestes prayed, whyle the sacrifice was a makynge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 33 The Feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making.

1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 15 The state or condition of Matter before the World was a-making, which is compendiously exprest by the word Chaos.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxiv. 44 The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making..were a sublime music to him.

1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 363 Were the pearl-gray stone a-cap that cap a penlight, it would beam just abaft the penman's shoulder and illuminate whoever looks thereover at these sentences a-making.

单词	to be a-making
释义	> as lemmas to be a-making (b) to be a-making (in same sense). Now chiefly regional. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase] to be in making?a1425 to be a-making1492 in the making1644 on the stocks1669 1492 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 660 Hys tentys and alys be a-makyng faste and many of them be made. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxx. 143 Ther they brake all [the bridge] to peaces that had been longe a makynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. i. 23 All the prestes prayed, whyle the sacrifice was a makynge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 33 The Feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a making. View more context for this quotation 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vii. 15 The state or condition of Matter before the World was a-making, which is compendiously exprest by the word Chaos. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxiv. 44 The echoes of the great hammer where roof or keel were a-making..were a sublime music to him. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 363 Were the pearl-gray stone a-cap that cap a penlight, it would beam just abaft the penman's shoulder and illuminate whoever looks thereover at these sentences a-making. extracted from makingn.¹ < as lemmas
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