| 释义 |
open-eyed, a.|əʊp(ə)nˈaɪd|
1. Having the eyes open; awake, vigilant.
1601Holland Pliny I. 27 Whosoeuer is smitten [by lightning] sleeping, is found open eied. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 301 While you here do snoaring lie, Open-ey'd Conspiracie His time doth take. 1883F. M. Peard Contradict. xi, Gina was all open-eyed amazement. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. x. 338 A..just open-eyed puppy, disconsolate at the existence of the moon.
b. Done with the eyes open.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan Der. liv, An open-eyed dream that the world has done with sorrow. 1892E. Lawless Grania I. iii. 17 His comfortable perch and open-eyed afternoon snooze.
2. Having the mental ‘eyes’ or perceptive powers open.
1648Bp. Hall Sel. Th. §12 A Christian..can be, at once, open-eyed to nature and blind to lust. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets i. 25 The result of open-eyed wisdom. 1888Westcott Vic. Cross 6 The soul open-eyed to all the facts of the world.
Hence openˈeyedly adv., with open eyes.
1894F. T. Palgrave in Jrnls. (1899) 246 He [A. P. Stanley], perhaps open-eyed-ly,..backs men he only half or not at all agreed with, from pure charity. |