单词 | to take air |
释义 | > as lemmasto take air ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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