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单词 winter and summer
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to summer and winter (also to winter and summer).
a. transitive. figurative. To treat (a person or thing) pleasantly and harshly in turn. Cf. sense 2. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > make happy [verb (transitive)] > give one a happy time
to summer and winter1595
1595 W. Burton Rowsing of Sluggard iii. sig. F2v Wee see how the Lord hath tossed and turned his Church from time to time: how he hath..both summered it, and wintered it, eased it, and pinched it.
1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence in Wks. (1630) ii. 3/2 Time now that summers him, wil one day winter him.
1647 T. Fuller Serm. Assurance 16 Religion hath cost them deare, they have not only been summered but wintered in piety, have not onely passed prosperity, but have been acquainted with adversity therein.
b. intransitive. To spend the whole year; (in extended use) to remain or continue permanently (with). Cf. summer and winter at summer n.1 and adj. Phrases 1.
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the world > time > period > year > [verb (intransitive)] > spend the whole year
to summer and winter1624
1624 G. Markham Honour in his Perfection 33 In the Palatinate he did both Summer and Winter, held out all extremities, and..returned home with Honour.
1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes xxvi. 210 The best and usefullest Constitutions of State are those experienced firm ones, that have lived, summered and wintered with us, as we say.
1776 E. Quincy Let. 30 Mar. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1858) 4 36 They degraded themselves so far as authoritatively to demand goods out of shops of the peaceable inhabitants, who summered and wintered with them, and deserved protection.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. x. 255 Grey headed negroes, who had wintered and summered in the household of their departed master, for the greater part of a century.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 209 The ruined tower of the bridge in Old Castile, where I have now wintered and summered for many hundred years.
1897 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 2 635 The relief department for aid..acts as a clearing house for organized aids except in the case of the friends with whom the house has summered and wintered.
1929 Sewanee Rev. 37 463 The method of behaviorism..is observation for a sufficient period of time (often it must be a long period of summering and wintering with a man) of what other people do and say.
2016 Afr. News (Nexis) 26 Jan. An academic foot-soldier, who has summered and wintered in this knowledge industry.
c. transitive originally chiefly Scottish. To maintain one's attitude to or relations with (someone or something) at all seasons, or under all circumstances; to associate with, be faithful to, or adhere to constantly; (hence) to be intimately acquainted with. Also: †to continue (a practice) for a whole year. Occasionally with it as object, or intransitive.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > continue (an action) [verb (transitive)] > continue a use or practice
keepc1315
entertain?c1452
retain1481
to summer and winter1602
sustain1602
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > know, be conversant with [verb (transitive)]
witc888
yknoweOE
witOE
canOE
knowOE
kenc1330
acquainta1393
quaint1509
understand1541
to summer and winter1602
possess1607
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > be faithful or loyal to [verb (transitive)]
teemc1275
to bear faithc1300
to hold firm (to)a1340
to stick to ——1531
to stick unto ——1531
to stick by ——1533
rely1582
to summer and winter1602
1602 N. Breton Poste with Madde Packet Lett. I. sig. B2v Shake off such acquaintance, as gaine you nothing but discredit, and make much of him that must as well winter you as sommer you.
1644 S. Rutherford Serm. House of Commons To Chr. Rdr. sig. A2v Whatever they had of Religion, it was never their mind both to summer and winter Jesus Christ.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 197 [Presbyterianism] was not suitable to the eternal gospel, for the fautors of it did scarce summer and winter the same form of discipline.
1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. xv. 34 I'm no obliged to summer and winter it to you.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xv. 323 We couldna think of a better way to fling the gear in his gate, though we simmered it and wintered it e'er sae lang.
1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xx. 120 I know the critics root and branch,—out and out,—have summered them and wintered them,—in fact, am one of them myself.
1865 H. B. Stowe Little Foxes (1866) 29 Mrs. Crowfield, who..has summered and wintered me so many years, and knows all my airs and cuts and crinkles so well.
1902 M. B. Betham-Edwards Mock Beggars' Hall 312 I've summer'd and winter'd you, old Bart, and I know what you're at.
1921 M. Argo Janet's Choice 25 I'll simmer and winter this nae langer.
1925 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 June 1039/1 Those medical men who had devoted their lives to the study of the insane mind, who had lived with the insane, summered and wintered them.
1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green xxxix. 543 ‘You've got to summer and winter a man before you can pretend to know him’ was an old country maxim much quoted at that time.
1990 Country Living Aug. 63 When true Cumbrians are obliged to meet new folk they are reputed to summer them, winter them, summer them again and then, perhaps, risk getting to know them.
2011 L. Stanley Faith in Land of Make-believe xxi. 234 My wise friend Dan Matthews once told me, ‘You never really know someone until you have summered and wintered together’. During Desperate Passage, I ‘summered and wintered’ with my wife.
d. transitive and intransitive. Chiefly Scottish. To consider or discuss (a matter) constantly, thoroughly, or at great length; to be tediously long in discourse. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > be prolix
prolixa1538
to summer and winter1724
to make words1823
1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden To Rdr. p. xxxvi These have been my Views and digested Thoughts, that I have summer'd and winter'd these many Years.
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxviii. 236 I'm no for summering and wintering about the matter.
1833 J. Galt Gudewife in Fraser's Mag. 8 654/1 What would you be at, summering and wintering on nothing?
1874 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 139/2 No lout in the village could be more thickheaded than the old lord, nor show greater need to have everything ‘summered and wintered’ to him, as Lady Eskside often impatiently said.
1891 E. Lynn Linton Let. 28 Mar. in G. S. Layard Mrs. Lynn Linton: Her Life, Lett., & Opinions (1901) 279 I am always afraid of ‘summering and wintering’ a subject too much.
a1917 E. C. Smith Braid Haaick (1927) 20 It'll serr naething now ti stert simmereen-an-wuntereen.
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winter and summer (also winters and summers)
P1. winter and summer (also winters and summers): in winter and in summer; all the year round, at all times. Similarly †winters ne summers: neither in winter nor in summer (obsolete). Cf. summer and winter at summer n.1 and adj. Phrases 1. [Forms in -s in early use show adverbial -s suffix1 (compare Old Frisian winteres , Old High German wintares , etc.); in later use probably apprehended as plural. Compare later winters adv. and summers adv.]
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OE Phoenix 37 Wintres ond sumeres wudu bið gelice bledum gehongen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1429 Enne blase of fure. þe neuer ne aþeostrede wintres ne sumeres.
c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 3 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 403 A fare tre callit lawrane, þat wyntyre & somir ay is grene.
1547 in in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 265 My suster..to have foure kie founde wynter and sommer.
1572 tr. S. Münster Briefe Coll. & Compend. Extract Cosmogr. f. 49v Both winter and sommer they are enforced to trauayle, and there is no end of these miseries.
1643 J. Caryl Expos. 3 First Chaps. Iob ii. 309 Some Trees keepe their greenesse and their leaves, winter and summer.
1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 189 Both he and his Haram keep their Tents Winter and Summer in the Field.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Oct. (1965) I. 275 The company are entertain'd with ice in several forms, Winter and Summer.
1762 W. Kenrick tr. J.-J. Rousseau Emilius & Sophia I. i. 58 You come..to wash them, winter and summer, with it [sc. the water] quite cold.
1834 New-Eng. Mag. Feb. 93 For above twenty-five years, I was present, winter and summer, at the opening of my store.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xliii. 378 Winter and summer, steamboats leave Westminster for Greenwich and Woolwich half-hourly.
1906 A. Mayer in U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 261. 11 The actual death of cattle from tick infestation may more easily happen..if these pastures are occupied winter and summer.
1953 Pop. Mech. Oct. 174/2 Double-glazed windows also save money both winter and summer.
1965 T. Aber & S. King Hist. Hamilton County 790 He took possession of Murray's camps on Osprey Island and lived there, winters and summers, for several years.
2001 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 1 Oct. 26 The Indian silver ankle chain she wears winter and summer.
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