单词 | to take a or one's flight |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (make, wing, etc.) a or one's flight a. The action or manner of flying or moving through the air with or as with wings. Also in phrases, to take (make, wing, etc.) a or one's flight: to fly. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > flying (as) with wings flighta900 flyOE aflightc1225 volitation1646 a900 Martyrology Fragm. 8 in Old Eng. Texts 177 Þa hi bæron to heofonum mid hiora fiðra flyhte. c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxxii. 11 Swa earn his briddas spænþ to flihte. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Mid þisse fluhte he fleh in to houene. c1220 Bestiary 59 Siðen his fliȝt is al unstrong. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 277 ‘Min fligt,’ he seide, ‘ic wile up-taken.’ 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 543 He says, man es born to travaile right Als a foul es to þe flight. a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 547 To the chyld he [sc. the dragon] toke a flyght. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. ii. 42 Ere the Bat hath flowne His Cloyster'd flight . View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 203 The flights and arrivals of which [Pigeons] I have often seene..in Aleppo. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 96 New ways I must attempt..To..wing my flight to Fame. View more context for this quotation 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 309 They could scarce fly further than an hundred yards at a flight. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) viii. 270 Undying words which wing their flight over each generation as it..passes away. 1871 E. Spender Restored I. vi. 115 Crowds of chaffinches went flitting along with their quick dancing flight. < as lemmas |
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