| 单词 | to lay down one's arms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay down (one's) arms e. to lay down (one's) arms and variants: to put down or stop using one's weapons; to surrender; to stop fighting. [Compare Middle French mettre jus les armes (c1502), Middle French, French laisser les armes (1559 in the passage translated in quot. 1579, or earlier).] ΚΠ 1568 tr. Kinges Edict vpon Pacification of Realme sig. E.iv They may safelye retire them selues vnto their houses, & there to lay downe their armes. [No corresponding sentence in the French original.] 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 778 Antonius requested agayne that bothe of them should lay downe armes [Fr. que tous deux..les laissassent]. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 345 Before we will lay downe our iust-borne Armes. View more context for this quotation 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. ii. vi. 115 They cannot lay down Arms, nor rejourn the Parliament to any other place. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes iv. 289 He wou'd not lay down his Arms, saying it was better to die, than to run into the Lion's Mouth. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 275 The emperor was made a prisoner, and his astonished troops laid down their arms. 1848 St. John Fr. Rev. 245 Lay down your arms. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. ix. vi. 142 18,000 French soldiers laid down their arms to the raw army that had defeated them at Baylen. 1945 tr. P. J. Goebbels in Times 23 Feb. 3/4 If the German people lay down their arms, the whole of eastern and south-eastern Europe..would come under Russian occupation. 1976 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 14 Zimbabwean Nationalists who patiently tried a negotiated settlement cannot now be expected to lay down arms. 2008 New Yorker 25 Aug. 29/1 Ban Kimoon..requesting all nations at war to lay down their arms. to lay down (one's) arms 1. transitive. To put (something that one is holding or carrying) down upon the ground or any other surface; to put off, discard (a garment, armour). to lay down (one's) arms: to surrender. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] to let awaya1000 forcast?c1225 to lay downc1275 forthrow1340 flita1375 removea1382 to cast away1382 understrewc1384 castc1390 to lay awaya1400 to lay asidec1440 slingc1440 warpiss1444 to lay from, offc1480 way-put1496 depose1526 to lay apart1526 to put off1526 to set apart1530 to turn up1541 abandonate?1561 devest1566 dispatch1569 decarta1572 discard1578 to make away1580 to fling away1587 to cast off1597 doff1599 cashier1603 to set by1603 moult1604 excuss1607 retorta1616 divest1639 deposit1646 disentail1667 dismiss1675 slough1845 shed1856 jettison1869 shake1872 offload1900 junk1911 dump1919 sluff1934 bin1940 to put down1944 shitcan1973 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > put or lay down allayOE seta1000 to lay downc1275 to put downa1382 to set downa1400 deposec1420 to sit down1600 depositate1618 deposit1749 ground1751 plank1859 the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > as a garment, weapon, etc. to lay downc1275 to lay awaya1400 to lay asidec1405 to lay by1439 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing to do offeOE to lay downc1275 to weve offc1290 stripc1320 doffa1375 loose1382 ofdrawa1393 casta1400 to take offa1400 warpa1400 to cast offc1400 to catch offc1400 waivec1400 voidc1407 to put off?a1425 to wap offc1440 to lay from, offc1480 despoil1483 to pull offc1500 slip1535 devest1566 to shift off1567 daff1609 discuss1640 to lay off1699 strip1762 douse1780 shuffle1837 derobe1841 shed1858 skin1861 peel1888 pull1888 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lay or put down to lay downc1275 to set netherc1275 to put downa1382 submit1543 down1595 society > armed hostility > defeat > suffer defeat [verb (transitive)] > surrender (a town, etc.) yield1297 ayield1450 render1481 surrender1509 capitulate1610 to lay down (one's) arms1659 to ground arms1855 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2528 Leie [c1300 Otho ley] a-dun þin hære-scrud & þinne rede sceld. and þi sper longe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3296 Mi hernes dun heir did i lai. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 165 Lay doun thy swerd, and I wol myn alswa. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 224 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 13 I did as myn moder saide, In þe corn myn howk doun lade, and bad it do þat do sulde I. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxxiij That with al spede they laye downe theyr weapons, and deuise some meanes of concorde. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 451 (note) They laid down their arms, and put on mourning. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvii. 618 She laid down the cup of tea. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 142 Eighteen thousand French soldiers laid down their arms to the raw army that had defeated them at Baylen. < as lemmas |
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