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单词 daughter of eve
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daughter of Eve
daughter of Eve n. (also Eve's daughter) literary a girl or woman, esp. (with allusion to Eve's part in the biblical story of the Fall of Man) one who is weak-willed, lascivious, or susceptible to temptation. Cf. son of Adam at son n.1 Phrases 1c.
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c1415 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Lansd.) (1875) l. 62 And þouhe þat .I. þe vnworþe douhter of Eue [c1405 Hengwrt sone of Eue] Be synful ȝit accept my be-leue.
1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction To Rdrs. sig. *4 Ye daughters of Eue, misconster not my simple speech.
1662 Duchess of Newcastle Orations Divers Sorts iv. 84 The Woman says she is Eve's Daughter, but if you will Spare her Life, she hopes to be as great a Saint as Mary Magdalen.
1747 W. King Toast iii. 109 Nor a Daughter of Eve has a Body so foul.
1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough viii. 94 I have seen mammas whom the fairest of Eve's daughters might be proud to resemble.
1911 W. J. Locke Glory of Clementina Wing xi. 124 It is not in the nature of three-and-twenty to look morosely on so dainty a daughter of Eve.
1950 C. S. Lewis Lion, Witch & Wardrobe ii. 16 ‘Of course I'm human,’ said Lucy, still a little puzzled. ‘To be sure, to be sure,’ said the Faun. ‘How stupid of me! But I've never seen a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve before.’
1986 B. Dijkstra Idols of Perversity x. 347 Being a woman, a daughter of Eve, and hence having..‘some of the taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths’.
2011 E. P. Freeman Grace for Good Girl ii. 134 Born as a daughter of Eve, your flesh was your only option because your spirit was dead.
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