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单词 all at sea
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all at sea
b. figurative. In a state of mind resembling the condition of a ship which is out of sight of land and has lost her bearings; in a state of uncertainty or perplexity, at a loss. Also all at sea.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > confused, at a loss [phrase]
at one's wit's end (occasionally ends)1377
seek1390
will of wane (also wone)a1400
will of redea1425
on wild1477
to be at a muse1548
at a loss1592
at a stopa1626
in a fog?c1640
in a wood1659
at a wit-standa1670
at sea1768
at fault1833
far to find, seek1879
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. xxvii. 440 If a court of equity were still at sea, and floated upon the occasional opinion which the judge who happened to preside might entertain of conscience in every particular case.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 486 If there were not the same rules of property in all courts, all things would be as it were at sea; and under the greatest uncertainty.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) ii. ix. 397 She was so plainly at sea on this part of the case..that Clennam was much disposed to regard the appearance as a dream.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 219 I was rather surprised to find that he seemed all at sea, and had no one ready to go with me.
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