| 单词 | both the twain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboth the twain P2. both the twain: one and the other, both (now archaic and rare). Formerly also †both twain, †both tway (obsolete). ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 635 Naked war þai bath tway. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vi. l. 3273 The hand, the hed of noble Tullius..Wer..brouhte bi Popilius, Vpon a stake set up bothe tweyne. ?1555 Ld. Morley tr. Petrarch Tryumphes sig. J.iii Both the twayne Decius. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Pref. sig. **vi From both twaine of them, wee drawe..the truth of our Scriptures. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xlii. sig. Dv Both finde each other, and I loose both twaine . View more context for this quotation 1637 M. Parker Two Inseparable Brothers (single sheet) If the one be cold or hot, that's common to both twaine. 1843 Fraser's Mag. June 734 Both the twain are gone. 1859 G. W. Dasent tr. P.C. Asbjørnsen & J. Moe Pop. Tales from Norse (ed. 2) 410 The fox had eaten both the twain, goose and duck. 1954 A. E. Watts tr. Ovid Metamorphoses ix. 213 Love..touched with equal pain The yet unpracticed hearts of both the twain. < as lemmas |
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