| 单词 | wind and weather |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswind and weather 5. In alliterative conjunction with weather: most frequently, now always, wind and weather; formerly also weather and wind, also with the, or with one or both nouns in plural. †(a) originally connoting stormy inclement weather (cf. weather n. 1g, 1h); (b) later, in neutral sense, atmospheric conditions as favourable or unfavourable for travelling; (c) now chiefly with reference to exposure to weathering influences. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] weatherc725 weatheringa1122 wind and weathera1225 time?a1425 a1225 Juliana 72 Buldeð ower boldes uppon treowe staðele þat ne dredeð na wind ne na weder nowðer. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. viii. 41 Like to þe grete wawes, Þat as wyndes and wederes walweth aboute. a1400 Octouian 1237 Good wynd and wedyr þay hadde at wylle. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 444 Where þe wynde & þe weder warpen hit wolde, Hit saȝtled. 1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 335/1 At the next Wynde and Wedder that wille serve theym. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary Magdalen 220 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 262 Bo[t] tholyt al þat haly rowte in wynd & wedyre ly þare-owt of þare tempil. 1513 Sir E. Howard in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 150 If wynde and wedour will serve. 1587 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1840) II. 356 That he sould keip his hour wind and weddar servand. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 227 'Tis in graine sir, 'twill endure winde and weather. View more context for this quotation a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §330 341 Wind and weather were ever against him, a proverb applied to the unfortunate. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iv. 56 With what art..the Papacy..was tacked into the Church contrary to wind and weather. 1667 Wellshure in Earl Orrery St. Lett. (1742) 293 If it should be my fortune to meet with prizes, I shall bring them here, if wind and weather will permit me. 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 17 June (1948) II. 539 If it did not come in due time, can I help Wind and Weathr. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lix. 588 It is a great house still, proof against wind and weather. < as lemmas |
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