| 单词 | to have one's own ados |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have one's own ados 4. Trouble, difficulty; frequently in with (also without) much ado. Also as a count noun, frequently in to have one's own ados (now Scottish). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty, trouble, or bother clondc1275 businessa1387 adoc1400 importunityc1475 fatigue1669 bother1761 botherment1821 picnic1896 palaver1899 hassle1959 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > trouble taken to accomplish anything whilec1175 painc1330 pine?c1335 teenc1380 adoc1400 labourc1405 painsc1480 trouble1577 fatigue1669 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vi. l. 164 Lytel hadde lordes a-do to ȝeue londe fro here aires To religion. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 1510 For whom I had..so gret ado Or I hir gat with spendyng of my blood. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. liiijv/1 And made nomore a doo to bere hym, than dooth a wulf to bere a lytel lambe. 1513 T. More Hist. Edward V 6 His Mother the Dutches had much adoe in her travell. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark v. f. 27 She had with muche ado wounde her selfe out of the prease of people. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes ii. ii. f. 29 Saint Paule..had muche adoo for the staying of that matter. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 105 Their clothes were made large and loose, easie to be put on, without any adoe. 1684 J. Paton in Cloud of Witnesses (1714) 213 Give him much ado, for we have much ado for him. 1742 J. Wesley Jrnl. 5 Feb. in Wks. (1990) XIX. 250 I had much ado to sit my horse. 1775 H. L. Thrale Jrnl. 18 Oct. in French Jrnls. Mrs. Thrale & Dr. Johnson (1932) 124 He did win a Louis of Johnson & fifteen Livers of myself at last with much ado. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets i. 56 Unhewed forests, quaking bogs;—which we shall have our own ados to make arable and habitable. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 129 Tribes which the Kings had much ado to keep in even nominal subjection. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 39 She has 'er ain adaes, wi' a no-weel man. 1955 H. St. J. Philby Sa‘udi Arabia ii. 39 He had much ado to calm the fears of his host. 1991 R. Brookhiser Way of WASP (1992) iv. 43 Though they did not speak the language..they fitted in without much ado. < as lemmas |
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