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单词 to sit, lie still
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to sit, lie still
b. to sit, lie still. (See the senses of the verbs.)
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > remain unmoved
restOE
to sit, lie stillc1000
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 438 Hire swuster Maria sæt stille æt Drihtnes fotum.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5839 Forr leness whellp þær þær itt iss. Whellpedd. tær liþ itt stille.
c1250 Owl & Night. 282 Me is leof to habbe reste And sitte stille in myne neste.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1528 Þus seide þe mæiden..& seoððen set swþe stille.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 243 To deþe he sset his owe fader þat he lai þer stille.
c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 492 The lady of the hous al stille sat, Til she had herd what the frere sayde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20509 Sittes stell now mar and lesse, And hers now þes mirines.
c1460 J. Metham Wks. (1916) 60/1617 But Cleopes for fere lay ston stylle.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 247 In that same hous thai socht him beselye Bot he sat still and span full conandly.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 719/1 I syt styll, I remove nat, je ne me bouge. Let every man syt styll on payne of his lyfe.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hii Folke saie, better syt still, than rise and fall.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxj Kyng Henry..perceyuing that the duke of Yorke lay still, and made no open apparance, of assemble or commocion, returned.
1611 Bible (King James) Zech. i. 11 And behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 164 And think'st thou to regain Thy right by sitting still or thus retiring? View more context for this quotation
1688 J. Bunyan Heavenly Foot-man (1886) 182 He that backslideth, and he that sitteth still in sin.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶7 This lazy People sat still above three Hours.
1859 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 7 I rose at six, tired of lying still.
1901 R. Buller in Scotsman 11 Oct. 5/8 I said..‘He is a gallant fellow; he will sit still to the end.’
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