单词 | to gape after or for |
释义 | > as lemmasto gape after or for a. to gape after or for (also †to gape at, †to gape upon): to be eager to obtain, to have a longing for (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > desire strongly or eagerly [verb (transitive)] to gape uponc1340 galp1546 gape1552 to gape ata1586 to die for1591 ambition1601 raven1607 ambigate1633 ambitionate?c1642 ambiate1659 sparkle1665 to be for1673 efflagitate1676 greed1848 to be spoiling for1865 c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 41 As if þou ware abydande or gapand after sum qwent stirringe. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1408 Fulle many men knowe I that yane and gape After some fatte and riche benefice. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xx. 156 Importune suters wil gape vpon suche reuersiouns. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. C.ijv It is no newe thyng that men gape for hygh and frayle thynges. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxx. xl. 768 He gaped at [L. petens] the honour of finishing the same [war]. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 190 The basenesse of a minde that gapeth for nothing but money. 1672 A. Marvell Let. 18 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 270 The greedy appetites of those who haue been so many years gaping after this profit. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 29 Apr. 25 Multitudes..who awake in the morning, vacant of thought, with minds gaping for the intellectual food, which some kind Essayist has been accustomed to supply. 1827–48 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 540 It is not solely in the Gospel that people go out into the desert to gape after new spiritual incarnations. < as lemmas |
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