| 单词 | two by two |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwo by two d. two and two, two by two, formerly also by two and two: in groups or sets of two; two at a time; by twos. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [adverb] two and twoc1000 by two and twoc1575 matchlike1582 two by two1709–10 pairwise1831 binately1870 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 528 He sende hi twam and twam ætforan him. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 281/109 He saiȝ þe freres go Þoruȝ þe londe, two and two. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1713 Ȝee sal..tak..Beist and fouxul..þe meke be þam ai tua and tua, þe wild do be þam-self al-sua. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xix. 87 Before þe chariot gase..all þe maydens of þe cuntree, twa and twa togyder. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iv. 1264 The clerkis eke were sette be too and too. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxii. 216 Guyer held his brother Gerames by the hande, and so all the other .ii. and .ii. c1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archaeologia (1840) 28 144 Foremoste wente all the soylders..by tooe and tooe. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vi. xxviii. 494 They daunced two and two. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 104 Join'd with his School-Fellows, by two and two [rhyme pursue] . View more context for this quotation 1709–10 J. Addison Tatler No. 120. ⁋3 Coming out Two by Two, and marching up in Pairs. 1863 A. P. Stanley Serm. in East App. i. 153 We started on foot, two and two, between two files of soldiers. < as lemmas |
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