| 单词 | eye-apple |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseye-apple eye-apple n. [compare earlier apple of the eye at apple n. 6, and German Augapfel (in Old High German as ougapful)] now rare (a) a favourite or cherished person; = the apple of a person's eye at apple n. 6b; (b) the pupil of the eye or the eyeball; = apple n. 6a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > eyeball balla1400 eye-apple1549 eyeball1594 globe of the eye1615 stivea1642 ocular globe1885 1549 R. Crowley Psalter of Dauid xvii. sig. D.iv Kepe me as the eie apple, and vnder thy wynges me hyde. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. ix. 81 If a party hath received a Wound in the Eye Apple..then [etc.] 1704 tr. J. Nieuhof Voy. Brasil in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 14/2 The Eyes [of the Chameleon or Gekko] are very large, starting out of the Head, with long and small Eye-Apples. 1825 Lancet 29 Oct. 177/1 The Germans speak of the eye-apple, in the same sense as we use eye-ball. 1874 Argosy Feb. 122 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen were nearly as glad to hear it as if a fortune had been left them; for Tom was just the eye-apple of both. 1943 B. Smith Tree grows in Brooklyn xiv. 108 ‘Don't tell Mother. She doesn't know how Sissy lives and Sissy is her eye-apple.’ 1973 T. Kinsella Poems 1973 51 Attached into the darkness by every sense—the ear pounding—peering eye-apples, unseeing. 2001 B. Holland They went Whistling 181 She was always their eye-apple, with ‘only child’ written all over her, so it comes as a shock to learn she had seven younger siblings. < as lemmas |
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