| 单词 |
buried |
| 释义 |
▪ I. buried, ppl. a.|ˈbɛrɪd|
[f. bury v.]
1. a. Laid in a grave, interred. b. Laid, sunk, or concealed under ground. buried treasure; also fig. and attrib.
c1440Promp. Parv. 37 Byryyde [1499 biryed], sepultus. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 159 That did her buried body hould. 1715Pope Ep. Addison 16 Some bury'd marble half preserves a Name. 1801Southey Thalaba iii. i, Some open rocks and mountains, and lay bare Their buried treasures. 1844Tupper Proverb. Philos. 388 In company of buried kindred. 1851(title) Buried treasures. Part I. The law of liberty: a letter on toleration, by John Locke. Part II. Milton ‘on the civil power in ecclesiastical causes’. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man. 9 A flint instrument from below a buried trunk of one of these pines. 1886A. Symons Introd. Browning Pref., Criticism is..a hazel-switch for the discovery of buried treasure. 1896H. James in Cosmopolis I. 390 Vereker's secret..the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure. 1904E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet ii. 42 ‘I believe it is a buried treasure,’ he cried... I wonder what you would say if you suddenly came upon a buried treasure? 1964Times 11 Feb. 12/7 Catalogues..have a buried-treasure charm.
2. transf. and fig.
1812Byron To Thyrza, ‘And thou art dead’ 71 More thy buried love endears Than aught, except its living years. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. i. 48 How they, buried in an obscure corner of the earth, dared to oppose. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxx, Sad Hesper [watches] o'er the buried sun.
3. Comb., as buried-alive (also fig.).
1851H. Melville Moby Dick II. xxxvi. 244 Poor, buried-alive Tashtego. 1871Geo. Eliot Let. 6 June in J. W. Cross Life (1885) III. xvi. 131 A resurrection of a buried-alive friendship.
▪ II. buried
obs. form of berried, threshed. |
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