英语词汇“to measure swords”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

g. transitive. to measure swords (also one's sword) (with) and variants: to meet in a contest or battle, or to try one's strength (with); to go up against someone in a dispute or competition. Cf. sense 13c.Originally with reference to the practice of ensuring that duellists' swords were of the same length; see quot. 1590.

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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > offer challenge of single combat or duel > engage in single combat or duel

to deraign battlec1380

kemp?a1400

to measure swords (also one's sword) (with)a1616

duellize1624

duel1647

to come to points1762

1590 W. Segar Bk. Honor & Armes iii. 48 The Conestable did likewise measure the weapons of the Combattors.]

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 85 And so wee measur'd swords, and parted.

1664 J. Wilson Cheats iv. i. 47 Tyro Not fighting, I hope? Titere Tu No—The Major, and I, have been only measuring blades.

1766 D. Garrick Let. 15 May (1963) II. 511 You say such fine things of him, that I ought to measure Swords w^th him, instead of doing him any Service in my Power.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. 24 You..wanted to measure swords with Mohun, did you?

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 267 Four times over he had now measured his sword with the future conquerors of the world.

1927 Amer. Hist. Rev. 32 836 I should translate here and there a bit differently, but I have not the effrontery to measure swords with a man who has 600,000 cards with references and meaning, while I have only the printed lists.

1996 N. T. R. Rao in Time Internat. (Electronic ed.) 29 Jan. 9 I must lead my party to battle. I want to measure my sword in the treasure of Congress.

单词	to measure swords
释义	> as lemmas to measure swords (also one's sword) (with) g. transitive. to measure swords (also one's sword) (with) and variants: to meet in a contest or battle, or to try one's strength (with); to go up against someone in a dispute or competition. Cf. sense 13c.Originally with reference to the practice of ensuring that duellists' swords were of the same length; see quot. 1590. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > offer challenge of single combat or duel > engage in single combat or duel to deraign battlec1380 kemp?a1400 to measure swords (also one's sword) (with)a1616 duellize1624 duel1647 to come to points1762 1590 W. Segar Bk. Honor & Armes iii. 48 The Conestable did likewise measure the weapons of the Combattors.] a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 85 And so wee measur'd swords, and parted. View more context for this quotation 1664 J. Wilson Cheats iv. i. 47 Tyro Not fighting, I hope? Titere Tu No—The Major, and I, have been only measuring blades. 1766 D. Garrick Let. 15 May (1963) II. 511 You say such fine things of him, that I ought to measure Swords w^th him, instead of doing him any Service in my Power. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. 24 You..wanted to measure swords with Mohun, did you? 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 267 Four times over he had now measured his sword with the future conquerors of the world. 1927 Amer. Hist. Rev. 32 836 I should translate here and there a bit differently, but I have not the effrontery to measure swords with a man who has 600,000 cards with references and meaning, while I have only the printed lists. 1996 N. T. R. Rao in Time Internat. (Electronic ed.) 29 Jan. 9 I must lead my party to battle. I want to measure my sword in the treasure of Congress. extracted from measurev. < as lemmas
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