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单词 to wade through blood, slaughter
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to wade through blood, slaughter
b. in figurative context, esp. to wade through blood, slaughter, etc.
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c1400 Rom. Rose 5022 To wynne the Ioy that is eterne, Fro which go bakward youthe hir made, In vanite to droune and wade.
1463 G. Ashby Poems ii. 46 For I cannat swym, I stand on the brynk Wadyng no forther, but as crist Iesus Sendith me konnyng.
1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶vjv As one writes very pretily, that children do wade in Virgill, and yet strong men do swim in it.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 176 They had..a sea of comfort and ioy to wade in.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 136 I am in blood Stept in so farre, that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go ore. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 21 I will carry you along to wade through that Acheldama,..when the Dogge-star..of Persecution so raged.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. i. 3 To encourage a man, who is to wade into her favour, (this was his expression) thro' the blood of her brother.
1751 T. Gray Elegy xvii. 8 To wade through slaughter to a throne.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xvi. 150 When France..went back for a time to the old form of legitimate monarchy which she had waded through seas of blood to destroy.
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