单词 | to ail nothing but good |
释义 | > as lemmasto ail nothing (also nought) but good 5. transitive. To suffer from (a disease, ailment, etc.). Earliest in to ail nothing (also nought) but good: to have nothing wrong with one (obsolete). Now rare.Almost exclusively with nothing or anything, or in interrogative contexts with what as apparent object. These might in several cases be regarded as adverbs and the verb as showing sense 4. The earliest examples might be taken as showing sense 2 with the person as object. ΚΠ 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) xxi. xii. sig. eev I doubte not syr Launcelot ayleth no thynge but good. a1500 (?a1400) Morte Arthur (1903) l. 1992 (MED) Gaheriet eyles noght bot goode; he wolle sone come A-gayne. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giiii For who loueth god can ayle nothynge but good. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue sig. D2v A Christall Mirrour..Wherein thou might'st behold what thing I aile. 1651 Exam. H. Parsons in S. G. Drake Ann. Witchcraft New Eng. (1869) 229 Ye Cow ayld Nothing that I could discerne. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xxi. 206 The Surgeon perceiving nothing that it [sc. an arm] ailed, was much startled at the motion. 1704 J. Locke Hist. Navigation in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. I. p. lxxi/1 The rest ailing nothing but the Scurvy, were cur'd with eating sour Plumbs. 1804 Philos. Mag. 20 46 Two of my own children..were inoculated by Dr. Jenner for the cow-pock, and ailed nothing but the pustule on the arm. 1862 G. W. S. Piesse Art of Perfumery (ed. 3) 130 Whatever he ailed, the rose was made in some fashion or another to enter into the remedy for his recovery. 1874 Tract Mag. 5 8 I may have had a slight cold once or twice, but I never ailed anything that kept me from business. 1907 J. Craven Brontë Moorland Village xi. 90 Before the doctor..he pleaded he was ill. ‘What do you ail?’ demanded the doctor. 1969 N. Lofts King's Pleasure xix. 249 He said that the Princess ailed nothing that he had a cure for. 1972 ‘J. Herriot’ All Creatures Great & Small xliii. 268 He never seemed to ail anything beyond a tendency for his teeth to tartar up. < as lemmas |
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