英语词汇“eye-apple”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

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balla1400

eye-apple1549

eyeball1594

globe of the eye1615

stivea1642

ocular globe1885

1549 R. Crowley Psalter of Dauid xvii. sig. D.i^v 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.

单词	eye-apple
释义	> as lemmas eye-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.i^v 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. extracted from eyen.¹ < as lemmas
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