applaud to the echoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

applaud to the echo (三人称単数 現在形 applauds to the echo, 現在分詞 applauding to the echo, 過去形および過去分詞形 applauded to the echo)

1. To give loud and continuous applause.
   • c. 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 5, scene 3:

     I would applaud thee to the very echo, / That should applaud again.

   • 1863, Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time. To which is Added a Chronological List of All the Operas that Have Been Performed in Europe, page 318:

     At first the public applauded her to the echo ; but soon her hearers began to weary of the reiterated extravagances of her style of singing, and the enthusiasm at length died out.