单词 | to be friend to |
释义 | > as lemmasto be friend (also friends) to a. to be friend (also friends) to: to be favourably disposed towards; to be on friendly terms with. Now somewhat archaic.In Old English with dative. ΚΠ OE Dream of Rood 144 Si me dryhten freond. OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) v. xvii. 464 He hine bæd & het, þæt he inlice þam biscope freond wære [L. amicum episcopo fieri]: & he swa wæs. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 150 (MED) Spiritus exaliþ, þe whiche þat ben freendis [L. amicabile] boþe to þe body and also to þe soule. c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 637 To thise grete Conquerours two Fortune was first freend and siththe a foo. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 244 The Indian Comarcans being..friends to Cortez,..gaue vnto him golde..and vittayles. 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse iv. vii. 22 in Wks. II H' is friend to him, with whom I ha' the dependance. 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 76 I have shewn, how much it concerns the Landed and Trading Interests to be Friends to each other. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer 225 The Widow's been good friends to me sometimes. 1947 Boys' Life Dec. 43/2 Frémont was the kind who could be friend to a scout like Kit Carson or to the highest government official. 2011 T. Modleski in T. M. Leitch & L. A. Poague Compan. to Alfred Hitchcock ix. 169 In the novel, the policeman who is friend to the Buntings..is a more likable fellow. < as lemmas |
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