| 单词 | upon await |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon await b. in await: in ambush; with be, sit, stand, lay, lie. So upon await. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > on the attack [phrase] > lying in wait in awaitc1386 in stalec1425 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 405 Homicides..That in awayte lyn to morther men. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 311 For hate is ever upon await. c1440 Gesta Romanorum 8 Deth..stondith euermore redy in awaite, for to shete his dart. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxii. sig. Dd2v There in await had he laied these murtherers. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. xviii. 78 The hidden deuill, that lies in close awate To win the fort of vnbeleeuing man. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 400 Many frames wherein shootters..& slingers were set in await. < as lemmas |
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