| 单词 | whole broad world |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhole broad world b. As an epithet of world. Also in whole broad world.Always less common than wide world and whole wide world (see wide adj. 1a(b)). Π a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8530 Oueral þis werld brade. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 418 (MED) Men myȝte..lyve to gidere in þe brood world as cristen briþeren. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bviii The hole brode worlde. 1679 Disc. Repugnancy of Sin 168 He must seek his pleasure in the broad World. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica I. i. x. 130 But, to him who has nothing to lose, all parts of the broad world are alike. 1871 G. Carrington Colonial Adventures & Experiences xxi. 253 People, who wander off, or are left alone, in the great broad world. 1941 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 25 Aug. 2/1 In fighting for ourselves we are fighting for Europe, for the United States, for the whole broad world. 2013 P. Farmer & J. Weigel To repair World 88 Everywhere I go in the broad world, I find that Miami means something. < as lemmas |
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