| 单词 | to stay to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stay to d. With infinitive: To remain or tarry in order to (do something). Also to stay to (dinner, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain as opposed to go > for a purpose to sit out1579 stay1592 staya1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iv. 59 Away, I say: stayest thou to vexe me here. View more context for this quotation 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxii. 229 If you mean to finish your journey, stay not to listen to their tales. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 31 The Ale-Wives tickle him in the Gills with the Title of Captain, which makes him oft times stay to get Drunk in their Houses, out of pure Joy and Gratitude. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxxv. 107 Thou hast ceas'd to be! Nor staid to welcome here thy wanderer home. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiii. 252 Some hilding fellow he must be, who dared not stay to assert his claim to the tourney prize which chance had assigned him. 1908 S. E. White Riverman viii Your friend seems a nice-appearing young man... Wouldn't he stay to dinner? < as lemmas |
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