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单词 to take air
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to take air
8. Public exposure or currency; publicity. to take air: (of information) to spread about, become generally known. Obsolete.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (intransitive)] > spread or be current
springOE
spreadc1300
to go abouta1325
quicka1400
risea1400
runa1400
walkc1400
stir1423
voice1429
fly1480
to go abroad1513
to come abroad1525
wandera1547
divulge1604
to get abroad1615
to take aira1616
to make (also do) the rounds1669
to get about1740
reach1970
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 129 Pursue him now, least the deuice take ayre . View more context for this quotation
1662 A. Marvell Let. 1 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 249 The businesse has got a litle too much aire.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Wars of Jews i. xi, in Wks. 767 For fear the Plot should take Air, and be Disappointed.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 166 But my Story getting Air, I was made the Scoff of every Body.
1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. IX. 10 Nothing that passed in the senate..was known abroad, or suffered to take air.
1798 M. A. Hanway Ellinor II. xvi. 427 If such an arrangement as you propose was to be acceded to by this poor girl, and..it was to take air, she must inevitable lose her character for ever.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. iv. 85 Had he suffered his detection..of the guilty parties to take air.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. vii. 189 He would not make any fuss that might bring the thing out into the air.
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