单词 | to take station |
释义 | > as lemmasto take (up) (one's) station b. to take (up) (one's) station: to take up a preferred or assigned position; to take one's place. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > position or situation > be positioned or situated [verb (intransitive)] > take up position to take (a tree) to stallc1275 pitch1535 range1582 suit1591 to take (up) (one's) station?1596 to fall in1627 to take ground1700 fix1710 to take one's (also a) perch1871 post1872 ?1596 J. Dickenson Shepheardes Complaint sig. A4 A Fowler hauing espied the haplesse bird,..tooke his station and prepared the engines of his crueltie. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vii. 128 Riddling Oracles..seems of severall hues, as the looker on takes his station. 1674 J. Milton Paradise Lost Argt. sig. X5 The Cherubim taking thir Stations to guard the Place. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) vii. lxxi. 93 Her doubtful Look, Where Paledness and Blushes mutually Their timorous and graceful stations took. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 32 They took their station under a balcony that overhung the lattice. 1804 Ld. Nelson Let. 17 Apr. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 501 Three French Privateers..have taken their Station off Tunis. 1841 W. Kennedy Texas (ed. 2) II. xii. 225 The artillery..took station within two hundred yards of the enemy's breastwork. 1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis II. xliv. 249 One of our companions took his station as sentinel upon the tomb of the little mosque. 1922 A. Thomas Print of my Remembrance xix. 355 A trooper..took his station on the opposite bank to guide our string. 1976 J. L. Mooney Dict. Amer. Naval Fighting Ships VI. 641/1 A week later, Stoddard departed the atoll to take up station off Okinawa. 1994 H. Mantel Change of Climate (2003) 194 They took up their station on the single bench outside. < as lemmas |
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