dree
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英 /dɹiː/
美 /dɹi/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Grief; suffering; trouble.
— Life is blood, shed and offered. / The eagle’s eye can face this dree. / To beasts of chase the lie is proffered: / Timor Mortis Conturbat Me.
动词 v.
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To bear or endure (something); to put up with, to suffer, to undergo.
— Peace to the souls of the graveless dead! / 'Twas an awful doom to dree; / But fearful and wondrous are thy works, / O God! in the boundless sea!
- To endure; to brook; also, to be able to do or continue.
形容词 adj.
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Alternative form of dreich.
— To be sure, t' winter's been a dree season, and thou'rt, maybe, in the right on't to make a late start.
副词 adv.
- Of the doing of a task: with concentration; laboriously.
- Chiefly of the falling of rain: without pause or stop; continuously, incessantly.
- Slowly, tediously.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Probably partly borrowed from Scots dree, and partly derived from its etymon Middle English dreen, dreghen, dreogen, drien, from Old English drēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan, from Proto-Germanic *dreuganą (“to act; to work, (specifically) to do military service”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold fast”). Doublet of dreich, dright, and drighten.
Cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”)
* Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”)
* Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”)
Cognates
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (driugan, “to do military service”)
* Icelandic drýgja (“to commit, connect, perpetrate, lengthen”)
* Scots dree, drie (“to bear, endure, suffer, thole”)
词源 2
Probably partly:
* derived from the verb (see etymology 1); and
* borrowed from Scots dree, or derived from its etymon Middle English dri, drie, dregh, dreghe (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”), possibly from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”), from Old English *drēog, *drēoȝ, dreoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly:
** shortened from Old English gedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective); and
** influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above).
Doublet of dreich.
* derived from the verb (see etymology 1); and
* borrowed from Scots dree, or derived from its etymon Middle English dri, drie, dregh, dreghe (“annoyance, trouble; grief; period of time”), possibly from Middle English dregh, dri, drie (“burdensome; depressing, dismal; large, tall; lasting, long; long-suffering, patient; tedious; of blows: hard, heavy; of the face: unchanging, unmoved; of a person: strong, valorous”), from Old English *drēog, *drēoȝ, dreoh (“earnest; fit; sober”), and then probably partly:
** shortened from Old English gedrēog (“calm, quiet; sober; fit, suitable”, adjective); and
** influenced by Old Norse drjúgr (“sufficient; excessive, very; great; strong”), from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz (see above).
Doublet of dreich.
词源 3
From dreich (adjective).
词源 4
See dreich.
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