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单词 eld
释义

eld

/ɛld /
noun [mass noun] literary
1Old age.Shakespeare's Claudio is told ‘Thou hast nor youth nor age’; conversely, this actor seems to have only youth and eld, with fribble in between....
  • From a dark courtyard came a sound of oaths and blows, followed by shrill screams, and, huddled upon a damp doorstep, he saw the crook-backed forms of poverty and eld.
  • Like Youth, the play appears to contain autobiographical elements, but here the subject is eld.
1.1Former times; the past.It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingers…...
  • For Billy Rose, at present busily revamping the theatre, it was like eld times.

Origin

Old English ieldu, eldu, of Germanic origin; related to elder1 and old.

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