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athirst

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繼承自繼承中古英語 athirst,繼承自繼承古英語 ofþyrstofþyrstan (因口渴而痛苦) 的過去分詞。等價於 a- (詞源8) +‎ thirst (動詞)

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athirst (比較級 more athirst最高級 most athirst)

  1. (古舊) 口渴
    • 1611The Holy Bible, []King James Version),London: [] Robert Barker, []→OCLC,「Revelation 21:6」:
      I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
      我要將生命泉的水白白賜給那口渴的人喝。
    • 1849,Currer Bell [筆名; Charlotte Brontë],Shirley. A Tale. [],第I卷,London:Smith, Elder and Co., []→OCLC264
      To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, []
      對於這個消瘦的幽靈,或許一年也得不到一點碎屑;但當他飢腸轆轆、至極點時——當全人類都忘記了這棟破屋中垂死的房客時——神聖的慈悲仍會記得這位哀悼者, []
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  2. (比喻義) 渴望的,渴求的(常接 for)。
    • 1817John KeatsSonnet (Written on a blank space at the end of Chaucer’s tale of ‘The Floure And The Leafe[1]
      I, that forever feel athirst for glory,
      Could at this moment be content to lie
      Meekly upon the grass, as those whose sobbings
      Were heard of none beside the mournful robins.
      我,永遠感到對榮耀的渴望
      此刻卻甘心躺臥在
      草地上,像那些嗚咽聲
      除了憂傷的知更鳥外無人聽見的人一樣。
    • 1878Algernon Charles Swinburne,「Ave Atque Vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire)」,收錄於 Poems and Ballads, Second Series[2],「Stanza IV」:
      O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping,
      That were athirst for sleep and no more life
      And no more love, for peace and no more strife!
      喔,失眠的心與不眠的憂鬱靈魂,
      那是對睡眠的渴求,不再留戀生命,
      不再留戀愛,只求和平,不再有鬥爭!
    • 1913, Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, translated from the Bengali by the author, 5,[3]
      I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
      My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.
      我坐立難安。我渴望著遠方的物事。我的靈魂在渴望中飄向遠方,想要觸碰那朦朧地平線的裙襬。

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繼承自繼承古英語 ofþyrst,源自 ofþyrstan (脫水);受短語 on thirst 的強化。字面分析等同於a- +‎ thirst

南部與西米德蘭方言中帶有 /f/ 的形式,是源自 /θ/ 對前接 /f/ 的同化(在保留了 ofþyrst/f/ 的早期形式中)。這些形式可能也受到了 afyngredofhungred 的變體)類比關係的強化(該詞也發生了類似的同化過程)。

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athirst (特別用於南部西南密德蘭;不用於北部)

  1. 口渴所苦的;非常口渴
    • c. 1378-9,[William Langland],「Paſſus .x᷒. de visione. et ıı᷒ de Dowel..」,收錄於 [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin](W, B-text),Londonc. 1400 出版,→OCLC,「folio 52、recto」;republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan(編),Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17(The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive;2),SEENET,2014→ISBN
      Ac þe carefulle may crie. and carpen at þe yate / Boþe afyngred and a furſt. and foꝛ chele quake. / Is þͬ noon to nyme hym neer. his anoy to amende / But hunten hym as an hound. and hoten hym go þennes
      但那些困苦的人必須在門口哀哭訴苦, / 既飢餓又口渴,且因寒冷而顫抖; / 卻無人接納他們、減輕他們的苦難, / 反而像趕狗一樣驅逐他們,叫他們離開。
  2. 渴求的,渴望[接 after]

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  • 英語:athirst (古舊)

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