单词 | to thread out |
释义 | > as lemmasto thread out a. transitive. To make one's way through (a narrow place, a passage presenting difficulties or obstacles, a forest, a crowd, or the like); to pass skilfully through the intricacies or difficulties of. to thread out, to pick out and follow, to trace (a path). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through or over obstacles > skilfully thread1597 negotiate1862 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 17 It is as hard to come, as for a Cammell To threed the posterne of a small needles eie. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 127 They would not thred the Gates. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Hhhh3v/1 See where he thrids the thickets. 1633 G. Herbert Vanitie in Temple i The fleet Astronomer can bore, And thred the spheres with his quick-piercing Minde. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cv. 157 A captain in the guards; who..had threaded every station in their community. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. vi. 60 I threaded all the windings of this new labyrinth. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram III. iv. x. 82 Events thicken, and the maze is nearly thridden. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 17 A labyrinth of narrow streets..rarely threaded by the stranger. 1866 D. Greenwell Ess. 219 A land intersected and thridden by the channels of benevolence. < as lemmas |
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