单词 | to startle into |
释义 | > as lemmasto startle into b. intransitive. To feel sudden astonishment or alarm; to take fright, be shocked at. †to startle into: to be shocked into (a particular state) (obsolete). Now rare (superseded by passive of sense 4). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > happen or move unexpectedly [verb (intransitive)] > feel surprised to think wonder (also ferly)lOE to have wondera1400 admirec1429 startle1562 to think (it) strange of (or concerning)1585 to come short?1611 strange1639 to think (it) much1669 admirize1702 to go (all) hot and cold1845 to take to1862 surprise1943 not to know (or to wonder) what hit one1961 the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] > be alarmed tremble and trotc1425 fear1490 startle1562 to give (also take, raise) the alarm1570 to take alarm1587 to take bog1627 scare1900 to get (have)or put the breeze up1910 to get the wind up1916 spook1928 1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth Pref. sig. E1v, in Apol. Priuate Masse And in dede..a man maye thinke they had good cause to startle at the matter. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 14 Patience her selfe would startle at this letter, And play the swaggerer. View more context for this quotation 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. ii. 31 Our loyall hearts startle to think of a repetition of the words. 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 72 The Robber and the Murderer in 'spite Of his red spots shal startle into White. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. §1 ⁋18 The liberties that are taken now, would then have been startled at. a1704 T. Brown Char. Jacobite Clergy in 4th Vol. Wks. (1711) 269 You must either leave them, or else, after the squeamishness of startling at a Surplice, be forc'd to swallow Transubstantiation. 1721 E. Young Revenge ii. i. 15 Yet to ask it Has something shocking to a generous Mind, At least Alonzo's Spirit startles at it. 1792 W. Wordsworth Descr. Sketches 60 The cloister startles at the gleam of arms. 1826 C. Lamb Let. 20 Mar. (1935) III. 37 A good lady, a friend's wife, whom I really love (don't startle, I mean in a licit way). 1835 T. N. Talfourd Ion iii. ii. 118 Which the pirates' nest..would startle at! 1961 R. Graves More Poems 42 In the course of travel, you must have startled at Some coign of true felicity. < as lemmas |
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