英语词汇“to beat the water”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. to beat the air, to beat the wind, ( to beat the water obsolete): to fight to no purpose or against no opposition; in reference to 1 Corinthians ix. 26. Sometimes referring to the ordeal by battle, when one of the parties made default, in which case the other is said to have gained his cause by dealing so many blows upon the air.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain

to lose or spill one's whilec1175

to speak to the windc1330

tinec1330

to beat the windc1375

lose?a1513

to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529

to lose (one's) oil1548

to plough the sand (also sands)a1565

to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581

to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581

to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600

to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616

to bark against (or at) the moona1641

dead horse1640

to cast stones against the wind1657

dry-ditcha1670

baffle1860

to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933

c1375 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. (1871) II. 258 Not as betinge þe eir.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 988/2 As we say in a common prouerbe, to beate the water, Saint Paule saith to beate the ayre.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. ix. 26 So fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

1815 Encycl. Brit. III. 488/2 If either of the combatants did not appear in the field..the other was to beat the wind, or to make so many flourishes with his weapon.

1884 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London II. xviii. 49 He cared little about contemporary politics, which he regarded as beating the wind.

单词	to beat the water
释义	> as lemmas to beat the water c. to beat the air, to beat the wind, ( to beat the water obsolete): to fight to no purpose or against no opposition; in reference to 1 Corinthians ix. 26. Sometimes referring to the ordeal by battle, when one of the parties made default, in which case the other is said to have gained his cause by dealing so many blows upon the air. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain to lose or spill one's whilec1175 to speak to the windc1330 tinec1330 to beat the windc1375 lose?a1513 to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529 to lose (one's) oil1548 to plough the sand (also sands)a1565 to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581 to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581 to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600 to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616 to bark against (or at) the moona1641 dead horse1640 to cast stones against the wind1657 dry-ditcha1670 baffle1860 to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933 c1375 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. (1871) II. 258 Not as betinge þe eir. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 988/2 As we say in a common prouerbe, to beate the water, Saint Paule saith to beate the ayre. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. ix. 26 So fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre. View more context for this quotation 1815 Encycl. Brit. III. 488/2 If either of the combatants did not appear in the field..the other was to beat the wind, or to make so many flourishes with his weapon. 1884 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London II. xviii. 49 He cared little about contemporary politics, which he regarded as beating the wind. extracted from beatv.¹ < as lemmas
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