aby

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /əˈbaɪ/    美 /əˈbaɪ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends. archaic,transitive
    — Foole-hardy Knight, full soone thou shalt aby / This fond reproach, thy body will I hang, [Hee takes down / his pole.] / And loe vpon that string thy teeth shall hang: Prepare thy selfe, for dead soone shalt thou bee
  2. To pay (something) as a penalty, to atone for; to suffer (something). archaic,figuratively,transitive
    — Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
  3. To endure or tolerate (something); to experience. transitive
    — The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
  4. To pay for (something); to buy. obsolete,transitive
  5. To pay the penalty; to atone. intransitive,obsolete
  6. To endure; to remain. intransitive,obsolete
    — So long as breath, and hable puiſſaunce / Did natiue corage vnto him ſupply, / His pace he freſhly forward did aduaunce, / And carried her beyond all ieopardy, / But nought that wanteth reſt, can long aby.

词形变化

abought participle,past abought past abye alternative abuy alternative abie alternative

词源

From Middle English abyen, abien, abiggen, from Old English ābyċġan (“to buy; pay for; buy off; requite; recompense; redeem; perform; execute”), from Proto-Germanic *uzbugjaną, equivalent to a- + buy. Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usbugjan). Not related to abide.
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