| 单词 | to go to bed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to bed P3. to go to bed: (a) to go to lie down to sleep; (b) figurative (of a newspaper, journal, etc.), to go to press (cf. sense 11), start printing; also, to see, put (a paper) to bed; (c) colloquial to have sexual intercourse (with), have a sexual relationship (with someone). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [verb (intransitive)] > start printing to go to bedc1275 to go to press1711 society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)] > start printing to see, put (a paper) to bedc1275 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)] to go to (one's) resteOE to take (one's) restc1175 to go to bedc1275 to lie downc1275 reposec1485 down-lie1505 bed1635 to turn in1695 retire1696 lay1768 to go to roost1829 to turn or peak the flukes1851 kip1889 doss1896 to hit the hay1912 to hit the deck1918 to go down1922 to bunk down1940 to hit the sack1943 to sack out1946 to sack down1956 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 357 A þeon time..þonne men gað to bedde. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 43 In glotonye, god it wote gon hij to bedde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iii. 8 To go to bed after midnight, is to goe to bed betimes. View more context for this quotation 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 35 For the ‘Times’—the mighty ‘Times’—has ‘gone to bed’. 1899 Daily News 30 Sept. 6/1 Night by night he remained at the office till the last, seeing the paper to bed (to use the old-fashioned phrase), and examining the first copies printed. 1933 M. Lutyens Forthcoming Marriages 197 He nearly always had to stay on at the office till after midnight when the paper ‘went to bed’. 1945 A. Huxley Time must have Stop (new ed.) iv. 46 How much less awful the man would be..if only he sometimes lost his temper,..or went to bed with his secretary. 1951 M. Dickens My Turn to make Tea iii. 31 We went to press, or, as we liked to say in our nonchalant Fleet Street jargon, we put the paper to bed. 1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead vi. 264 ‘If you go to bed with a man, he won't marry you,’ she used to say. ‘Every girl knows that.’ 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex v. 44 A young doctor..may think it all right to propose ‘going to bed’ to a nurse he has only just met. < as lemmas |
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