英语词汇“to drive a pen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P6. to drive a pen (also quill): to write, esp. (in earlier use) as a means of earning a living.Cf. to push a pen at push v. Phrases 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > [verb (intransitive)]

awriteeOE

writeOE

scrievec1390

to drive a pen (also quill)1788

pen-and-ink1801

screeve1851

pen1904

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. i. vii. 82 If he had employed his time in..driving the quill in the East Indies, he might..have been by this time a Member of Parliament by purchase.

1803 M. Cutler Let. 21 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 131 I am compelled to write them as fast as I can drive my pen.

1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. vii. 95 One of half a dozen who..drove the quill for very slender wage.

1945 Macleay Chron. (Kempsey, New S. Wales) 20 June 4/4 Bill Smith and Jack Jones..left school the same day—Bill to go into the Commonwealth Bank, Jack to drive a quill for the Bank of Australian Antarctica.

2016 Forward (Nexis) 26 Aug. 32 A writer splits into two personas: a social being..and a shadowy second self, seated at his writing table in the dark, feverishly driving his pen.

单词	to drive a pen
释义	> as lemmas to drive a pen (also quill) P6. to drive a pen (also quill): to write, esp. (in earlier use) as a means of earning a living.Cf. to push a pen at push v. Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (intransitive)] awriteeOE writeOE scrievec1390 to drive a pen (also quill)1788 pen-and-ink1801 screeve1851 pen1904 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. i. vii. 82 If he had employed his time in..driving the quill in the East Indies, he might..have been by this time a Member of Parliament by purchase. 1803 M. Cutler Let. 21 Feb. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 131 I am compelled to write them as fast as I can drive my pen. 1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. vii. 95 One of half a dozen who..drove the quill for very slender wage. 1945 Macleay Chron. (Kempsey, New S. Wales) 20 June 4/4 Bill Smith and Jack Jones..left school the same day—Bill to go into the Commonwealth Bank, Jack to drive a quill for the Bank of Australian Antarctica. 2016 Forward (Nexis) 26 Aug. 32 A writer splits into two personas: a social being..and a shadowy second self, seated at his writing table in the dark, feverishly driving his pen. extracted from drivev. < as lemmas
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