| 单词 | auld |
| 释义 | auld, a. dial.
(ɔːld, Sc. ɑːld)
Also aud.
[mod.Sc. and north Eng. descendant of OE. ald, which became in midl. dial. in 13th c. old.]
= old; as in auld lang-syne, ‘old long-since,’ old long-ago (used subst.); Auld Reekie, ‘Old Smoky,’ a sobriquet of Edinburgh; auldfarrand, ‘favouring,’ i.e. resembling the old or adult, having the manners or sagacity of age; auld-warld, old-world.
[950–see ald.] 1375Barbour Bruce I. 17 Aulde storys that men redys. 1692‘Jacob Curate’ Scotch Presb. Eloq. iii. 101 Now billy Jonah, wilt thou go to Nineveh for ald lang syne [marginal note, old kindness]. 1702Thoresby Diary I. 352 Saw..a child of three years old fill its pipe of tobacco, and smoke it as audfarandly as a man of three score! 1721Ramsay Poems 72 [title] The Kind Reception. To the Tune of Auld lang syne. 1788[see langsyne]. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xl, My best service to all my friends at and about Auld Reekie! 1827Scott Two Drovers i. in Chron. Canongate I. xiii. 303, I am Hugh Morrison from Glenae, come of the Manly Morrisons of auld langsyne. 1848Kingsley Alt. Locke (1881) I. 91 Foolish auld-warld notions about keeping days holy. 1896G. B. Shaw in Our Theatres in Nineties (1931) II. 140 That smile may have meant sentimental memories of auld lang syne. 1901W. Laidlaw Poetry & P. 58 On auld lang syne I'll stand and ponder. |
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