| 单词 | to hold company |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold (a person) company b. to hold (a person) company: = to keep (a person) company at Phrases 2c(b)(i). Now rare. [Compare Middle French tenir compagnie à quelqu'un (see Phrases 2c(a)(i)).] ΚΠ a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 1488 Deiphebus..Come hire to preye..To holde hym..companye At dyner. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccccxvv/1 Anthonye, whyche wrote hys lyf and helde hym companye. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxv. sig. Tii My senesshal who shal holde you companye. 1614 B. Rich Honestie of Age 40 A puritan, a precise Foole, not fitte to hold a gentleman company. 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 280 Spitfire holds me company. 1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions (1915) xxv. 264 An ambient trout-stream held him company most of the long afternoon. < as lemmas |
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