英语词汇“waste of waters”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. transferred. Applied, e.g., to the ocean or other vast expanse of water (often waste of waters, watery waste), to land covered with snow, and to empty space or untenanted regions of the air.

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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > an unoccupied space > vast

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1552 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 89 A place caulled vastum vacuum .i. the great waste asmoche to saie as a place voyde or emptie withoute the worlde where is neither fier ayre water nor earth.

1655 E. Waller Panegyric to Ld. Protector 41 Lords of the Worlds great Waste, the Ocean, wee Whole Forrests send to Raigne upon the Sea.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 1045 Satan..in the emptier waste, resembling Air, Weighs his spread wings.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 409 From that dire Deluge, through the wat'ry Waste,..At last escap'd, to Latium we repair.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 309. ¶21 In Satan's Voyage through the Chaos there are several Imaginary Persons described, as residing in that immense Waste of Matter.

1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xviii Millions of myles throch the wyld waste.

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. vi. 163 The utmost Extent of the Waste or Expance of Space.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 80 Where Mæotis sleeps, and hardly flows The freezing Tanais thro' a waste of snows.

a1771 T. Gray in T. J. Mathias Observ. Writings & Character Mr. Gray (1815) 47 The song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air.

1804 T. Moore To Marchioness Dowager Donegall 32 Those pure isles..Which bards of old, with kindly fancy, plac'd For happy spirits in th'Atlantic waste?

1804 W. L. Bowles Spir. Discov. 308 Whose volcanic fires A thousand nations view, hung like the moon High in the middle waste of heaven.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 388 As these broad black rain-drops mingle with the waste of waters.

1864 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 257 A raft is floating upon an ocean waste.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 81 Showing their bare faces of precipitous rock across the dreary wastes of snow.

1892 M. Creighton Hist. Ess. (1902) ix. 266 The waste of waters which spread on the east..was not sea-water.

1892 F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War I. 198 The ‘great level’ round the isle of Ely..was..a waste of water in winter.

单词	waste of waters
释义	> as lemmas waste of waters b. transferred. Applied, e.g., to the ocean or other vast expanse of water (often waste of waters, watery waste), to land covered with snow, and to empty space or untenanted regions of the air. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > an unoccupied space > vast waste1552 terrain vague1920 1552 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 89 A place caulled vastum vacuum .i. the great waste asmoche to saie as a place voyde or emptie withoute the worlde where is neither fier ayre water nor earth. 1655 E. Waller Panegyric to Ld. Protector 41 Lords of the Worlds great Waste, the Ocean, wee Whole Forrests send to Raigne upon the Sea. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 1045 Satan..in the emptier waste, resembling Air, Weighs his spread wings. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 409 From that dire Deluge, through the wat'ry Waste,..At last escap'd, to Latium we repair. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 309. ¶21 In Satan's Voyage through the Chaos there are several Imaginary Persons described, as residing in that immense Waste of Matter. 1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xviii Millions of myles throch the wyld waste. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. vi. 163 The utmost Extent of the Waste or Expance of Space. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 80 Where Mæotis sleeps, and hardly flows The freezing Tanais thro' a waste of snows. a1771 T. Gray in T. J. Mathias Observ. Writings & Character Mr. Gray (1815) 47 The song-thrush there Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. 1804 T. Moore To Marchioness Dowager Donegall 32 Those pure isles..Which bards of old, with kindly fancy, plac'd For happy spirits in th'Atlantic waste? 1804 W. L. Bowles Spir. Discov. 308 Whose volcanic fires A thousand nations view, hung like the moon High in the middle waste of heaven. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 388 As these broad black rain-drops mingle with the waste of waters. 1864 D. G. Mitchell Seven Stories 257 A raft is floating upon an ocean waste. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 81 Showing their bare faces of precipitous rock across the dreary wastes of snow. 1892 M. Creighton Hist. Ess. (1902) ix. 266 The waste of waters which spread on the east..was not sea-water. 1892 F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War I. 198 The ‘great level’ round the isle of Ely..was..a waste of water in winter. extracted from wasten. < as lemmas
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