| 单词 | to hold the field |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold the field b. to hold the field: to maintain one's ground (originally on a field of battle); to succeed in not being displaced or superseded. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > be permanent [verb (intransitive)] > by prevailing to hold the field?a1518 obtain1619 ?a1518 H. Watson Ualentyne & Orson (1555) lxxvi. sig. Ss.i.v And whan the paynyms sawe that the Admyrall was dead it is not to be demaunded yf they were sorowfull, and had no hardynes for to holde the felde. 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 38 The Captaine gone, then Angolesme doth yeeld With seauen Townes more, the Frenchmen hold the field. 1668 Earl of Orrery Henry V i. 10 If..you had present been to see The softness of those Charms which conquer'd me; You'd wonder more that long I held the field, Then that at last I willingly did yield. 1741 H. Brooke tr. Constantia in G. Ogle et al. tr. Canterbury Tales of Chaucer II. 133 Courage still tenacious, holds the Field. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. II. xii. 6 He accepted the challenge; and proposed, with his knights, to hold the field against all that would enter the lists. 1836 T. Q. Stow Scope of Piety x. 259 Amidst all..the deadly conflicts of the christian, he has the gratification to perceive that he still holds the field; that he still maintains the fight; that he has not given in to the foe. 1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 66 The last edition will..long hold the field. 1914 S. W. Pennypacker Pennsylvania xii. 122 Twenty-six hundred Americans fought seven thousand British, and, capturing a battery, held the field. 1997 R. Fortey Life x. 276 Uniformitarianism held the field through much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. < as lemmas |
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