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

to run restive: to run wild or out of control; to behave in an unmanageable or uncontrollable manner; to become intractable and rebellious. Now rare.

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1746 J. Downes Def. of Set or Prescribed Forms Prayer 67 Which if rapidly or unjudiciously pronounced, (say you, or if the Preacher runs restive, or on the wrong Side the Post, say I), becomes disagreeable, confus'd, and often unintelligible.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xcix. 58 If he must fain sweep o'er the etherial plain, And Pegasus runs restive in his ‘waggon’, Could he not beg the loan of Charles's Wain?

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lix. 32 It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive.

1830 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 135 In returning home Mrs. Bryan's horses ran restive against the gate, broke the pole, and threw off the postillion.

1876 W. S. Landor Wks. II. 287 Ay, envy of superiority made the angels kick & run restive.

1902 J. S. Fletcher Hist. St. Leger Stakes 114 Quid was exceedingly restless at starting, and ran restive all the way.

1940 Mod. Lang. Rev. 35 449 Pegasus, it is true, generally ‘runs restive’ with our poet.

单词	to run restive
释义	> as lemmas to run restive to run restive: to run wild or out of control; to behave in an unmanageable or uncontrollable manner; to become intractable and rebellious. Now rare. ΚΠ 1746 J. Downes Def. of Set or Prescribed Forms Prayer 67 Which if rapidly or unjudiciously pronounced, (say you, or if the Preacher runs restive, or on the wrong Side the Post, say I), becomes disagreeable, confus'd, and often unintelligible. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xcix. 58 If he must fain sweep o'er the etherial plain, And Pegasus runs restive in his ‘waggon’, Could he not beg the loan of Charles's Wain? 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lix. 32 It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive. 1830 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 135 In returning home Mrs. Bryan's horses ran restive against the gate, broke the pole, and threw off the postillion. 1876 W. S. Landor Wks. II. 287 Ay, envy of superiority made the angels kick & run restive. 1902 J. S. Fletcher Hist. St. Leger Stakes 114 Quid was exceedingly restless at starting, and ran restive all the way. 1940 Mod. Lang. Rev. 35 449 Pegasus, it is true, generally ‘runs restive’ with our poet. extracted from restiveadj. < as lemmas
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