单词 | wintering ground |
释义 | > as lemmaswintering ground C1. attributive (chiefly in sense 3), as wintering ground, wintering house, wintering place, etc. ΚΠ ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxxviii. f. 52v Worthy men of his army..to be called togyder..from their wyntring places [L. ex hibernis]. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. iv. 28 Quhen Apollo list depart or ga Furth of hys wyntring realm of Lysya. 1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria Aunc. Hist. Romanes Warres ii. 185 They went both to their wintring harbours. 1611 in M. Christy Voy. L. Foxe & James (1894) II. 630 The certaine tyme of the Ship's comming owte of the wintring port, he remembreth not. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. x. §10. 122 The Inhabitants of the Countrie, through which they marched, had their wintering houses vnder ground. 1629 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis (new ed.) iv. 291 As in perpetuall wintering stations. 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 254 This wintering place was observed to lie in 53° 29′ North latitude. 1798 W. Tomison Let. 18 July in Sask. Jrnls. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1967) 26 137 I have eat nothing..but Pemmecan and have not anything to trust to till i come near the wintering Ground. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 51 I set out..at sunrise, for the wintering house. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lii. 149 The wintering post of Colonel Kearney. 1895–6 A. Hope Let. in B. Harper Kettle on Fuchsia (1967) 145 I began the winter with 20,000 sheep..on a block of wintering country, near Fairlie Creek. 1920 Boys' Life Jan. 14/1 A more or less stylish little city called San Sebastian, which is much used by native Floridians as a summer resort and by wealthy Northerners as a wintering place. 1977 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 9 Jan. b 8/4 The request for Texas biologists to investigate the whitewing wintering grounds came from the International Whitewinged Dove Council. 2002 Calgary Herald (Nexis) 23 Nov. ts10 You immerse yourself in the era exploring the fur store, provisions stores, wintering house, apothecary, [etc.]. 2012 Independent 3 May 22/3 Although all five [cuckoos] made it to their wintering grounds, one more bird came unstuck on the way back—cuckoo Martin, who had flown to Africa via Italy. < as lemmas |
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