单词 | to bounce it |
释义 | > as lemmasto bounce it a. To bound like a ball; to throw oneself about: esp. said of an elastic or bounding movement by a heavy or bulky body. In early use to bounce it (said of a woman dancing): cf. Latin humum pulsare ‘to thump or pounce the ground’. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > return towards point of departure > bounce or spring back bounce?1520 rebounce1616 whip1872 the world > movement > impact > rebound > [verb (intransitive)] to pilt up againa1200 bolt?c1225 rebounda1398 redoundc1500 stot1513 to strike upward1530 band1580 recoil1591 bound1597 result1598 retort1599 resile1641 bandy1658 resiliate1755 ricochet1804 reverberate1817 kick1832 dap1851 bounce1887 bank1962 ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Cvv She wyll bounce it she wyll whyp ye clene aboue the grounde. 1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. H See where one bounseth in a players gowne. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles v. 65 I saw the Porpas how he bounst and tumbled. View more context for this quotation 1744 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 254 My heart bounced for joy at the news of your good house. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 35 When you have struck him, he will plunge and bounce in the water very much. 1802 I. Milner in M. Milner Life I. Milner (1842) xiv. 261 All in one instant, it bounced into my mind, that there must be an opening in the said brass rods. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 37 Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock. 1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 456/2 The judges bounced like quicksilver. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 69 God puts his finger in the other scale, And up we bounce, a bubble. 1851 O. W. Holmes Song of '29 A cannon bullet rolling Comes ‘bouncing’ down the stairs. 1883 R. Browning Jochanan Hakkadosh in Jocoseria 127 Yet is the Ruach (..The imparted Spirit) in no haste to bounce From its entrusted Body. 1887 N.E.D. at Bounce Mod. This ball is split, and will not bounce at all. < as lemmas |
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