| 单词 |
summer's day |
| 释义 |
summer's day
[Cf. OFris. sumersdey Mid-summer day.]
A day in summer: often put typically for a very long day.
a1300K. Horn 29 Hit was vpon a someres day. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 715 Als a shadu on þe somers day. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 11613 Vp-on the glade somerys dayes. a1536Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 117 Lyke a meyny of bullokkis..on a whot somers day, whan they be mad all. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. i. 14 Like stinging Bees in hottest Sommers day. 1667Milton P.L. i. 449 To lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day. 1743Blair Grave 107 Oh! then the longest summer's day Seemed too too much in haste. 1853M. Arnold Scholar Gypsy ii, All the live murmur of a summer's day.
b. Phr. in († upon) a summer's day, used in various commendatory phrases; some summer's day, some day or other, ‘one of these fine days’.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. ii. 89 A sweet-fac'd man, a proper man as one shall see in a summers day. 1594Lyly Mother Bombie i. iii, As goodly a youth as one shall see in a Summers daie. 1697H. Wanley in Bodl. Q. Rec. (1915) Jan. 112 [The] Vice-Chancellor..with the other Curators, upon some Somers day, might call them all over. 1742Fielding J. Andrews iv. xv, As fine a fat thriving Child as you shall see in a Summer's Day. 1823Byron Juan xiv. lxxxii, There's another little thing..Which you should perpetrate some summer's day. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxvii, You won't see a prettier pair, I think, this summer's day, sir. |
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