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单词 to gird the loins
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to gird (up) the loins
a. as the part of the body that should be covered by clothing and about which the clothes are bound. to gird (up) the loins (literal and figurative): to prepare for strenuous exertion.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > prepare for an effort
bracea1500
to gird (up) the loins1526
to brace up1809
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. iii. f. iijv This Ihon had hys garment off camels heer, and a gerdell off a skynne aboute his loynes.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxxi. C She gyrdeth hir loynes with strength.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 176 My face ile grime with filth, Blanket my loynes . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1096 Some Tree whose broad smooth Leaves together sowd, And girded on our loyns, may cover round Those middle parts. View more context for this quotation
1747 W. Collins Odes 15 To gird their blest prophetic Loins.
1753 C. Smart Hilliad i. 27 Her loins with patch-work cincture were begirt.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 17 It was necessary, therefore, to gird up our loins and walk.
1855 R. Browning Statue & Bust in Men & Women I. 172 The unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.
1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. v. 130 And round about her loins Wound a fair golden girdle.
1880 E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family II. xi. 258 He was standing like the impersonation of masculine punctuality with loins girded.
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