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单词 to be born and bred
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to be born and bred
a. to be born and bred (also to be bred and born): (originally) to undergo gestation and be brought forth as offspring; (now) to be brought forth as offspring and raised in a specified place or manner.
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c1300 Body & Soul (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 45 Of o wymman born and bredde, Body, were we boþe tvo.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 4209 In þe first he sal be born and bredde, And in þe secunde be nuryst.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 113 Where he was born and breden.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 1067 Wee are so borne and bredde of nature.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. K4 That was both borne and bred In heuenly throne.
1614 J. Cooke Greene's Tu Quoque in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) VII. 19 A wench that has been bred and born in an alley.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. ii. 20 I was bred and borne Not three houres trauaile from this very place.
1729 W. Law Serious Call xviii. 326 Born and bred in families that have no Religion.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 275 He was born and bred in your house.
2005 N.Y. Times Mag. 2 Oct. 102/2 A native Filipino who works as a desktop publisher, Sabangan yearned to write her life history for her children, both born and bred in New York.
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