| 单词 | to fall upon a person's neck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fall (also sob, weep) upon a person's neck P3. to fall (also sob, weep) upon a person's neck and variants: to embrace (a person), esp. in seeking comfort.Originally in translations of or with allusion to the Bible (Genesis 45:14). ΚΠ a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xlv. 14 And whanne he hadde biclippid, and hadde feld [v.r. falle] in to the necke of Beniamyn, his brother, he wepte, the while also Benjamin wepte in lijk maner on the necke of Joseph. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlv. 14 And he fel vpon his brother Beniamins necke, and wept: and Beniamin wept vpon his necke. View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 76. ⁋3 He would..make two Fellows who hated, embrace and fall upon each other's Neck. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park (ed. 2) 447 Lady Bertram came..to meet her;..and, falling on her neck, said ‘Dear Fanny! now I shall be comfortable.’ 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter iii My father, weeping upon my neck, had blessed Heaven for the courage of his child. 1909 R. Brooke Let. 3 Nov. (1968) 192 Your offer is splendid and noble. I fall upon your neck. 1912 R. Kipling Songs from Bks. (1913) 153 So back I go to my job again, Not..quite so ready to sob again On any neck that's around. 1959 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. 155 The soccer field where the players fall upon the neck of the goal-shooter. 1993 Geist Sept.–Oct. 15/2 Pavlina, yelling out my name, falls upon my neck. < as lemmas |
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