| 单词 | without resource |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithout resource a. Possibility of aid or assistance; means of overcoming or mitigating adverse circumstances. Esp. in without resource. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > possibility of bieldc1325 recurec1330 resource1651 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 118 He never fell sans resource, but still rallied his squandred squadrons, and made offensive head againe.] 1651 Honour of Eng. Soldiery 7 The Province is wholy ruinated without restource [sic], and..shortly it will be more desolate than ever Lorrain hath been. 1659 J. Howell Some Prov. French Toung 24/1 in Παροιμιογραϕια I am spoyled, I am utterly undone without resource [Fr. sans resource], or ever being able to rise. a1690 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) I. 139 This Year..concluded with such a Sparring-Blow as destroy'd almost all hopes of Resource. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 552 Vanquish'd without ressource; laid flat by Fate. 1749 T. Smollett Regicide ii. iv. 21 Nor by an Oath precipitate, involve Thy Fate beyond Resource. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 322 ‘Geneva’, says the historian of this revolution, ‘is lost without resource, in respect to religion, to morals’. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iii. i. 43 For we cannot hope That aid, or retribution, or resource Will arise thence. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxiv. 442 The flower of the French army was lost without resource. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience x. 244 It [sc. the self] is completely bankrupt and without resource, and no works it can accomplish will avail. 1994 K. Binmore Game Theory & Social Contract I. i. 40 Although the commitment ladder has been kicked out from beneath our ingenious slaveholder, he is not left entirely without resource. < as lemmas |
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