| 单词 | to rape and run |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rape and run (also rend, wring) ΚΠ c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 1422 Ye shul no thyng wynne on that chaffare, But wasten al that ye may rape [v.r. rappe] and renne. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 217 Thei euer couete, and..rape and rende from other. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 230 Whatsoever I could rape or wring from them. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 137 She..snatch'd all she could rape and rend, unto her self. 1716 tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas II. iv. 6 I laid out all the Money I could rape and rend in Linnen, Washes, and Essences. 1785 A. Pirie Crit. & Pract. Observ. Scripture-texts 117 As violence, cruelty and rapacity, have always distinguished the race of giants, hence the word rapa or rape in the derived languages, still convey these ideas. Thus..the English rape, to rap and rend, i.e. to seize by violence. < as lemmas |
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