英语词汇“cycle of cathay”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cycle of Cathay n. a period of time which is long-lasting but during which little changes.Probably influenced by the idea of the sexagenary cycle (see sexagenary cycle n. at sexagenary adj. and n. Compounds). Some examples may refer directly to this cycle and mean ‘a period of sixty years’ (e.g. quot. 1925).

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1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 110 Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

1886 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 194 Two hundred and fifty years have gone by, and the world has made more progress in that time, we are told, than in many cycles of Cathay.

1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 480/2 In the seventy-five years of San Francisco's existence there was more fulgurous life than in three cycles of Cathay.

1969 E. L. Jones & S. J. Woolf Agrarian Change & Econ. Devel. 1 Their political histories are cycles of Cathay, the sagas of dynasty after dynasty interrupted only by conquests or palace revolutions.

2012 J. Kelly Graves are Walking vi. 95 The board's workday proceeded with the deliberateness of a Cycle of Cathay.

单词	cycle of cathay
释义	> as lemmas cycle of Cathay cycle of Cathay n. a period of time which is long-lasting but during which little changes.Probably influenced by the idea of the sexagenary cycle (see sexagenary cycle n. at sexagenary adj. and n. Compounds). Some examples may refer directly to this cycle and mean ‘a period of sixty years’ (e.g. quot. 1925). ΚΠ 1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 110 Thro' the shadow of the world we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 1886 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 194 Two hundred and fifty years have gone by, and the world has made more progress in that time, we are told, than in many cycles of Cathay. 1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 480/2 In the seventy-five years of San Francisco's existence there was more fulgurous life than in three cycles of Cathay. 1969 E. L. Jones & S. J. Woolf Agrarian Change & Econ. Devel. 1 Their political histories are cycles of Cathay, the sagas of dynasty after dynasty interrupted only by conquests or palace revolutions. 2012 J. Kelly Graves are Walking vi. 95 The board's workday proceeded with the deliberateness of a Cycle of Cathay. extracted from Cathayn. < as lemmas
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