serried: [17] The phrase serried ranks is first recorded in William Wilkie’s Epigoniad 1757, but it was clearly inspired by Milton’s ‘Nor serv’d it to relax their serried files’ in Paradise Lost 1667. It means ‘rows crowded close together’, and serried is the past participle of a now obsolete verb serry ‘press together’. This was borrowed from serré, the past participle of Old French serrer ‘close’, which went back via Vulgar Latin *serrāre to Latin sērāre, a derivative of the noun sera ‘lock, bolt’.
serried (adj.)
"pressed close together," 1667 (in "Paradise Lost"), probably a past participle adjective from serry "to press close together" (1580s), a military term, from Middle French serre "close, compact" (12c.), past participle of serrer "press close, fasten," from Vulgar Latin *serrare "to bolt, lock up," from Latin serare, from sera "a bolt, bar, cross-bar," perhaps from PIE *ser- (3) "to line up" (see series). Modern use is due to the popularity of Scott, who used it with phalanx.
双语例句
1. serried ranks of soldiers
密集排列的士兵
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2. The fields were mostly patches laid on the serried landscape, between crevices and small streams.
农田大部分是地缝和小溪之间的条状小块.
来自辞典例句
3. Above the bush the trees stood in serried ranks.
荆棘之上耸立着密密麻麻的大树.
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4. As the closely serried leaves bent , a tide of opaque emerald could be glimpsed.
这时候叶子与花也有一丝的颤动,像闪电般,霎时传过荷塘的那边去了.
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5. He could not as yet with the magnates the East the serried Sequoias of Wall Street.
