| 释义 |
eye view, eye-view
[f. the phr. bird's-eye view (bird's-eye 3).]
A view; usu. suffixed to a possessive substantive to denote what is seen from the view-point of the person or thing specified; freq. in phrases bird's eye view, worm's eye view.
1762–71, etc. [see bird's-eye 3]. 1908Punch 10 June 429/2 We fear the population will develop balloon-necks through trying to get a worm's-eye view of the gas-bags in the haze. 1920A. Huxley Limbo 137 He prided himself on being able to see the thing as a whole, on taking an historical, God's-eye view of it all. 1952H. W. Tilman Nepal Himalaya xi. 131 A man looking at a big mountain from a valley has naturally only a worm's-eye view. 1959Sunday Times 4 Oct. 17/3 Here is a bookworm's-eye view of a hazardous trade. 1962A. Huxley Island xiii. 218 How should one look at other people?.. Should one take the Freud's-eye view or the Cézanne's-eye view? The Proust's-eye view or the Buddha's-eye view? 1962J. Robertson (title) Hospitals and children: a parent's-eye view. A review of letters from parents to the Observer and the BBC. 1963Listener 17 Jan. 129/2 From his own eye-view Sir Compton has no lack of items to add to the history of his time. |