单词 | to be hard stead |
释义 | > as lemmasto be hard (straitly, stiffly, etc.) stead ΘΚΠ 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 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3470 Þe leuedi was ful ferli drad, Als womman þat ful hard was stad. c1400 Rowland & O. 1528 There were oure folkes full styffely stadde. a1440 Sir Eglam. 459 Thou haste byn strongly stadd. c1440 York Myst. xlv. 137 Men þat are stedde stiffely in stormes or in see. a1450 J. Lydgate To Soverain Lady 109 Therfore I love no labour that ye lese Whan, in longing, sorest ye be stadde. ?c1470 What shall I Do? 10 in H. Gilbert Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 86 Thus am I sted ful heuely. c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 650 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 169 Full hard in þat towne þai war sted. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 664 Thai wend I wes stratly stad. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 204 Men redys off mony men that war Fer hardar stad then we yhet ar. a1500 Ratis Raving i. 461 Quhen þow art stad ocht narowly With Irous wyll and gluttony. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 125 He circulit him sone efter at ane seig, Into ane place quhair he wes sted rycht herd. 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. F O me, ill stead, valliant Rogero slaine. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 182 O father, we are cruelly sted between God's laws and man's laws. < as lemmas |
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