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单词 whole wide world
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whole wide world
(b) As an epithet of world. Also in whole wide world.In later use sometimes implying a contrast with the privacy or security of one's own home or country.
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eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) viii. 39 Eala, þær hit wurde oðþe wolde God þæt on eorðan nu ussa tida geond þas widan weoruld wæren æghwæs swelce under sunnan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12117 Off all þiss wide middell ærd Þe kine domess alle.]
a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 77 Þe sunne streonþ þe lome þet ho spret in to al þis wide worlde.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) 60 Ðat was ðe firme morgen-tid Ðat euere sprong in werld wid.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 595 (MED) Al the wide worldes fame Spak worschipe of hire goode name.
c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 380 Nero..This wide world hadde in subieccioun.
c1450 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 262 (MED) The worlde so wide, th'aire so remuable..what creature..May stedfast be?
a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum l. 141 in Poems (1899) 49 (MED) The best thinge in al this wide world is this, For to be renouned in blessed fame.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 135 As we bee sonnes of the world so wide.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Hecyra iv. iv, in Terence in Eng. 374 Shall we rather..leaue him to the wide world?
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman iv. 35 Turne them out into the wide world with a little money in their purses.
1658 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 69 The world being wyde she would not venture her conscience upon a disputable point.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. i. §3 These were so fully known to him..that he needed not to go to School to the wide world.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 141 I shall be turn'd a drift to the wide World.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. v. xii. 51 The thoughts of resigning my little preferment, and embarking in the wide world with so young a consort.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 136 Had his article been the only article in the whole wide world, it might perhaps have had some small chance of insertion.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 212 The coarse and bloated faces..have counterparts..all the wide world over.
1847 J. B. Buckstone Flowers of Forest iii. vii No, no—not for the wide wide world.
1906 K. Trask Night & Morning 34 Take me, Leonidas, to thy strong arms—..fold me from the whole wide world.
1959 L. Armstrong in T. Brothers Louis Armstrong in His Own Words (1999) viii. 116 Mary-Ann had already 'hipped me to what was happening in this healthful wide beautiful world.
1975 J. B. Keane Lett. of Matchmaker 89 The strangest feeling came over me like as if I was the only creature in the whole wide world.
2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 213 Now..we were in the big wide world, one which was looking towards the punker end of the comedy spectrum.
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