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单词 to ease nature
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to ease nature
d. euphemistic. The need of the human body to defecate and urinate. Frequently in call (also †need, †work) of nature and to ease nature. Cf. sense 2a.
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a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 13v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Natur(e Thai fenȝit to pas furth to thare nedis of natur.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 155 His Seruant..diuerted a little out of the way, to performe the worke of nature.
1685 G. Sinclair Satans Invisible World Discovered (1871) 247 Steping to the door to ease nature.
1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 328 He withdrew from the Company to ease Nature.
1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 11 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1067 That small portion of it [sc. time] which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. Slawkenbergius's Tale 55 A city..who neither eat, or drank,..or hearkned to the calls either of religion or nature for seven and twenty days.
1852 in Tailor & Cutter (1966) 14 Oct. 111/1 The calls of Nature are permitted and Clerical Staff may use the garden below the second gate.
1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xlv. 237 Gasim explained that he had dismounted to ease nature.
1965 W. Soyinka Road 26 The women tell you to stop because they's feeling the call of nature. If you don't stop they pee in your lorry.
1986 Good Housek. (U.K. ed.) May 169/3 We were bumping so much we had to beg for a ‘nature stop’... Never so quickly and nervously did we relieve ourselves and rush..back to the safety of the van.
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