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单词 to be hard bested
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to be hard bested
a. Placed in some situation, situated, circumstanced; generally with ill, and the like. to be hard bested: to be hard put to it, hard pressed.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > be in difficulties or straits
to be hard bested?c1225
to be hard set1387
to be hard (straitly, stiffly, etc.) steada1400
to have mistera1400
charge1487
to be hard (also sorely, etc.) put to ita1616
straiten1647
to be ill set1673
press1813
to be up a gum tree1829
push1863
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 194 Hwen we beoð swa bi staðed swa stronge.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 190 Þe þrid eschele fulle hard was bisted.
c1400 Epiph. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 145 On the all wemen wyl call When thei with chylde ben by stedde.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 704 There rekkethe none how harde I be bystade.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcviii. 690 They that were lefte behynde were hardly bestadde.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z4 On his way, Vppon an hard aduenture sore bestad . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 56 I neuer saw a fellow worse bestead . View more context for this quotation
a1618 J. Davies in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 247 Since by ill we are so well bestad, We cannot greeue for ill.
1727 T. Boston Let. 24 Nov. in Memoirs (1776) App. 49 Luther, found himself hardly bestead in the several conflicts within his own breast.
a1850 D. G. Rossetti Dante & Circle (1874) i. 157 Poor barque, so ill bested!
1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry vi. 166 Men of his kind..are often sore bestead.
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