| 单词 | to take cold |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take cold b. As a mass noun: disease attributed to an excess of the quality of coldness within the body or part of the body, to a superfluity of cold humours (esp. phlegm), or to exposure to low temperature; (in later use) spec. acute and self-limited catarrhal illness of the upper respiratory tract (cf. common cold n. at common adj. and adv. Compounds 2). Originally esp. in to take cold; later esp. in to catch cold at Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > low temperature cold?a1400 through-cold1562 perfrigeration1585 key-cold1602 perfriction1607 algidity1874 hypothermia1886 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > have high or low temperature [verb (intransitive)] > low temperature coldOE to take cold1540 chill1830 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 60 He..died þer for colde in Lumbardie o chance. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1240 Thys wounde on youre hede hath caught overmuch coulde! a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxii. f. cxxxii Swanus..went to Iherusalem,..and dyed by the waye of Colde, that he had taken of goynge barefote. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. lvii By desease in the brestes, or by takyng of colde in the same. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. 3 Sothrenwood stieped or soked in oyle, is profitable to rubbe or annoint the body, against the benomming of members taken with colde, and the brusing or shyuering coldes that come by fittes, like as in Agues. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 50 Cough of colde, anoint the chest with oyle de Bay. 1646 T. Juxon Jrnl. (1999) (modernized text) 134 My Lord General Essex died at his house..of an apoplex, having been sick about a week, taking cold in hunting the stag. 1690 S. Sewall Diary 11 Sept. (1973) I. 266 Having also found that sitting so near the out-side of the House causeth me in Winter-time to take cold in my head, I removed into Gallery. 1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 344 In the winter of the year 1759, upon taking cold, he was afflicted with peripneumonic and pleuritic symptoms. 1800 W. Angus Epitome Eng. Gram. p. xxxii Scotticisms... He has got the cold. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 11 I fear My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton iv. 40 I will not allow Bell to catch her death of cold. 1913 Trans. Ninth Ann. Meeting (National Assoc. Study & Prevention Tuberculosis) 259 Of the 13 cases not previously subject and taking vaccine, 3, or 23 per cent., took cold. 1922 C. S. Lewis Diary 6 Sept. in All my Road before Me (1991) 104 Very tired and full of cold. 2000 A. Taylor Where Roses Fade (2003) i. 14 ‘Don't just stand there,’ she said. ‘Come in before I catch my death of cold.’ < as lemmas |
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