fold one's tent

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

folded one's tent folding one's tent folds one's tent 三单 folds one's tent folding one's tent 现在分词 folded one's tent 过去式 folded one's tent 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit.

    习语

    1844, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Day is Done" (proem to The Waif), lines 41-44, And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.