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单词 unreached
释义

unreachedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːtʃt/, U.S. /ˌənˈritʃt/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and reached adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, reached adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + reached adj.
Not reached (in various senses).
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > remote or inaccessible > not reached
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?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 251 As he would try If all the Gods inhabiting the broad unreached sky Could daunt his spirit.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxii. 64 The unreach'd Paradise of our despair.
1922 Continent 30 Nov. 1521/1 It is the existence of these ‘savable’ but unreached people outside the church that forms a leading reason for the church's using films at all.
2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) x. 229 Our stand began to fill to numbers hitherto unreached before lunch.

Compounds

(Cf. note at un- prefix1 2c.)
With prepositions, as unreached for, unreached at, etc.: not striven for; not stretched out for or picked up.
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1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 33 When our Author tells us..of a now longer than Ages, and a being unretcht out.
1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 113 Between which two Extreams true Pleasure lies, O'er-run by Fools, unreach'd at by the Wise.
1866 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 2 But for the end, that lies unreached at yet Between the hands and on the knees of gods.
1951 Prairie Schooner 25 235 The one unreached-for coin that fell with a sound lost in the sound of Charlie's feet out the door.
2008 T. Mallon Fellow Travelers 316 He knew there would be no crying; the shamrock handkerchiefs remained dry and unreached for.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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