| 单词 | to shut fast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shut fast a. To bring (a door, gate, window, lid, etc.) into the position in which it closes the aperture. to shut fast: to shut so that it cannot easily be opened. Also (originally U.S.) in past participle with verbs of movement, as draw, push, etc., denoting completion of an action; equivalent to to adv. 4.As words like door, gate, etc. usually admit of being used for the aperture together with that which closes it, this sense passes into sense 7. ΚΠ c1200 Vices & Virtues 143 Ga into þine bedde..and scete ðe dure. ?a1366 Romaunt Rose 529 I fond a wiket smal So shet that I ne mighte in goon. c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 335 My wyndowes were shette [v.rr. shet, shyt] echon. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 67 Þer nys noon þat shittiþ frely þe doris of þe temple. a1400 K. Alis. 6185 In the water is heore gates;..Whan hit is flod, y-scheot [Laud yshet] they beoth. a1400 K. Alis. (W.) 5821 The men of that cite..ronnen to her gates fast, And hem shetten wel on hast. c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1094 Thogh his dore be noght shit. c1440 Generydes 5773 The gates ar all shett of that Citee. 1483 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 141 They schytte the gattes. 1521 Cov. Leet-bk. 669 The gates of the Citee shal-be shot euery nyght at viij of the clok. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xi. f. xciiij Nowe is the dore shett. a1539 in Archaeologia (1882) 47 52 That doore..contynually to stand shitt the tymes of dyvyne seruice. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 119v The windowes..being kept shut in winter. 1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 53 The Citizens..shut their doores. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Heb. iv. 1) When the gate is shut. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 240 Fast we found, fast shut The dismal Gates, and barricado'd strong. View more context for this quotation 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 608/2 The Gate used to be kept shut. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. xi. 298 He would not even condescend to shut his gates. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair liv. 484 The publican shutting his shutters. 1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 13 He..pushed the ground~glass door shut. 1895 P. Hemingway Out of Egypt i. iii. 26 Every house had its green blinds closely shut. 1902 O. Wister Virginian xiv. 163 Our wheels clucked over the main-line switch. A train-hand threw it shut after. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed ii. 23 The last boarder rising drew shut the folding-doors into the parlor. 1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley xiv He kicked shut the draught door of the stove. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! i. 18 She slams the door shut. 1957 T. Slessor First Overland 256 We slam shut the windows, as the car slides down through the rocks. < as lemmas |
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