单词 | to take prisoner |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (a person) prisoner a. to take (a person) prisoner: to seize and hold (a person) as a prisoner, esp. in war. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > deprive of liberty by restraint [verb (transitive)] > take captive takeOE caitive1382 seizea1400 captivec1430 to take (a person) prisonera1475 to take captive1535 overthrallc1540 captivatea1575 stay1590 encaptive1592 capture1796 to hold captive1884 a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 130 (MED) The Erlis..rose ayenest thair kynge..and toke hym and his sonne prisoners in the ffelde. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Bijv The gouernour..so by crafte circumuented him, that he toke him priesoner, and commaunded him to be hanged on the sayle yarde of the shyp. 1581 T. Lupton Persuasion from Papistrie 79 For the Emperour thought belike, that it was as lawful for him to take the Pope prisoner, as to put his owne father out of his kingdome. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. iii. 36 In Parthia did I take thee Prisoner, And then I swore thee, sauing of thy life, That whatsoeuer I did bid thee do, Thou should'st attempt it. View more context for this quotation 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 200 The Infernal Conjurer Pursu'd, and took me Prisoner. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. v. lxxvi. 347 Ali was taken prisoner and blinded. 1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 336 He was taken prisoner by the Infidels at Damietta. 1827 Q. Rev. 35 87 On the overthrow of his party he was taken prisoner, and carded to death. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iii. xv. 360 Montfort was taken prisoner; his countess, one of the virago heroines of the time, was besieged in Hennebon. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 311 The confusion, terror, and indignation of the surprised gives little scope or will to take prisoners those of the beaten surprisers whom it is impossible to shoot. 1968 V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates v. 130 The Naxians took to the hills, but a few were taken prisoner. 2002 E. J. Hess Lee's Tar Heels 40 The Tar Heel general was ashamed of having been taken prisoner. < as lemmas |
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