| 单词 | to do one's main |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do one's main P1. (In sense 1.) †with (also in, mid) all one's main, with main, with all (also great, mickle) main (in Middle English poetry often used as a metrical stopgap or tag): with the utmost strength or vigour one is capable of. †to set one's main to: to apply all one's energies to. †to do one's main: to do one's utmost, one's best. See also with or by (all one's) might and main at might n.1 Phrases 1b, with (also in) mood and main at mood n.1 Phrases 1, and amain adv. ΚΠ OE Guthlac A 260 Mec dryhtnes hond mundað mid mægne. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ix. 75 Eal folc ðone eadigan Gregorium to ðære geðincðe anmodlice geceas, þeah ðe he mid eallum mægne wiðerigende wære. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 177 Uten we nu mid alle ure heorte, and mid alle ure mæȝne, cyrren to ure Drihten. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 123 Luuian we hine mid alre heorte..mid alle meine. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 608 He..het him go wiþ alle mayn, For to wite whi heo ne come. c1300 St. Lucy (Laud) 113 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 104 (MED) A þousend men with al heore main on hire gonne drawe. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 884 Gii..Þe stede toke bi the reyn, & lepe vp wiþ gret meyn. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1083 Tristrem smot wiþ main. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 1076 (MED) Quen he [sc. Cain] had his broþer slayne to hide him he dide his mayne. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 1452 (MED) Syr Gawayn did al his mayne To pray Sir Ywaine..Forto wende with þam infere. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 4326 (MED) He saide ‘In manus’ with mayne one molde whare he ligges, And thus passes his speryt. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 4048 He thanked god with all his mayne. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 163 Tell me, Ioseph, with mayn, youre red. a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 239 Me thynke þat konsyons schuld hom ken To pray for pes with all þer mene. 1542 T. Becon Potacion for Lent sig. D.iiijv That ye cleue stedfastly wt all mayne to the promyses which laye forth Gods mercy. 1568 Wyf of Auchtirmwchty l. 53 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 322 Than owt he ran in all his mane. 1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie 8 Then with all their maine Their braikens bukled to the fight againe. 1787 W. Beckford Portuguese Jrnl. 3 June (1954) 60 I am going to sing with all my main. < as lemmas |
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