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单词 to take stand
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to take stand
a. A person's standing place or position. Also figurative. Also in to take one's stand and †to take stand(poetic). Now rare.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > where one takes up a position, residence, etc.
space?a1400
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stance1532
settling1582
station1587
consistory1592
roosting place1643
pitch1699
standing place1736
terrain1832
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1694 Siþen efter alþernest hand þe meke beistes sal haue þair stand.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 249 Come now wyth me, and stond on ȝondyr stonde befor þe and loke downeward.
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. cxxv. sig. S2 Nay father since your fortune did attaine So hye a stand: I meane not to descend, Replyes the Prince.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. iv. 27 Por. Is Cæsar yet gone to the Capitoll? Sooth. Madam not yet, I go to take my stand, To see him passe. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 395 Then from his loftie stand on that high Tree Down he alights. View more context for this quotation
1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 6 Beneath the quiv'ring Shade..The patient Fisher takes his silent Stand.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. iv. 114 He saw from his lofty stand all the dumb show of gallantry.
1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche i. xxiii. 10 She passed, and taking stand Upon its taper horn of furthest land, Looked left and right.
1931 M. A. Barnes Westward Passage vi. 215 Little Olivia was looking at her mother very steadily from her stand near the door.
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to take (the) stand
18. Falconry. A position of rest from flight, esp. on a raised perch or roost. Frequently in to take (the) stand, to go to (the) stand. Now rare.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > resting place or nest
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eyrie1667
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 24 Lucilla..fearing he would take stande if the lure were not cast out, toke him by the hand and..began thus to comfort him.
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 4v The hawke that commeth at the first cal, wil neuer be stedfast on the stond.
1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. viii. 93 (margin) Helps for faults in long winged hawkes, and first of the stand.
1678 J. Ray Summary of Falconry v, in tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 409 Remedy for a Hawk taking Stand in a Tree... When..your Hawk hath stooped, and endeavours to go to Stand [etc.].
1753 Country Gentleman's Compan. 41 When you lure the Hawk, cast your Lure into some low Tree or Bush, that thereby you may bring her to take the Stand.
1899 Country Life Illustr. 28 Oct. 535/2 A good bird has been known to take stand for no reason whatever, and refuse to come down to dead lure, live rabbits or pigeons.
1993 M. Hollinshead Hawking Ground Quarry i. 21 To be successful in hunting these hare, the hawk must be taught to take stand high up in a tree.
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