英语词汇“an empty sack cannot stand”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. an empty sack (also bag) cannot stand (upright) and variants [after Italian sacco vuoto non puo star in piedi (1612 in the passage translated in quot. 1612)] : great hunger or need renders a person weak, weary, or desperate.

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1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger iv. i. 261 F. I haue great hunger... B. I doe see, that an emptie sacke, cannot stand vpright.

1758 B. Franklin Poor Richard Improved sig. E2 Poverty often deprives a Man of all Spirit and Virtue. 'Tis hard for an empty Bag to stand upright.

1859 S. Smiles Self-help ix. 221 The proverb says that ‘an empty bag cannot stand upright’; neither can a man who is in debt.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. viii. 150 There's folks as things 'ull allays go awk'ard with: empty sacks 'ull never stand upright.

1904 in J. Lawson How to solve Race Probl.: Proc. Washington Conf. Race Probl. in U.S. 1903 xi. 222 An empty sack cannot stand up; a hungry man cannot be honest.

1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 310 We've a long night before us and an empty sack won't stand.

2006 A. Fine Road of Bones (2007) 18 ‘When will they realize empty sacks can't stand upright?’ ‘My belly already thinks my throat's been cut.’

单词	an empty sack cannot stand
释义	> as lemmas an empty sack (also bag) cannot stand (upright) b. an empty sack (also bag) cannot stand (upright) and variants [after Italian sacco vuoto non puo star in piedi (1612 in the passage translated in quot. 1612)] : great hunger or need renders a person weak, weary, or desperate. ΚΠ 1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger iv. i. 261 F. I haue great hunger... B. I doe see, that an emptie sacke, cannot stand vpright. 1758 B. Franklin Poor Richard Improved sig. E2 Poverty often deprives a Man of all Spirit and Virtue. 'Tis hard for an empty Bag to stand upright. 1859 S. Smiles Self-help ix. 221 The proverb says that ‘an empty bag cannot stand upright’; neither can a man who is in debt. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. viii. 150 There's folks as things 'ull allays go awk'ard with: empty sacks 'ull never stand upright. 1904 in J. Lawson How to solve Race Probl.: Proc. Washington Conf. Race Probl. in U.S. 1903 xi. 222 An empty sack cannot stand up; a hungry man cannot be honest. 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 310 We've a long night before us and an empty sack won't stand. 2006 A. Fine Road of Bones (2007) 18 ‘When will they realize empty sacks can't stand upright?’ ‘My belly already thinks my throat's been cut.’ extracted from emptyadj.n. < as lemmas
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