英语词汇“eyes like saucers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

In similative phrases, comparing the eyes to saucers, esp. in being large and round, and in later use typically indicating awe, surprise, alarm, or other strong emotion, as in eyes like saucers, eyes as wide (also big, large, etc.) as saucers, etc. [The phrase originally showed sense A. 1a. Compare similarly Anglo-Norman les oyls granz com deus saucers (13th cent.).]

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a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) l. 3110 (MED) With eghen þat war ful bright and clere And brade ilkone als a sawsere.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 95 Her eyes like siluer saucers fayre beset, With shining Amber and with shady-Iet.

1659 T. St. Serfe tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Σεληναρχια sig. G^v In Water there is Fire, and in Fire there is Water; in Air, Earth; and in Earth, Air; and though this opinion make your Scholars open their eyes as big as sawcers, yet it is easier to prove, then to perswade them to it.

1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant v. i. 74 We met three or four hugeous ugly Devils, with eyes like Sawcers.

1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 3 The eyes of these Dogs as Jetzer thought,..were bigger than Saucers.

1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Subj. for Painters 40 I thought That thou a pair of horns hadst got, With eyes like saucers staring!

1818 Morning Post 6 Feb. He spoke, and like saucers expanded all eyes In wonderment, scanning the orator's size.

1844 A. Marsh-Caldwell Triumphs of Time I. iii. 94 To my surprise, he answered with a sort of smile, ‘that perhaps it might’. I stared with eyes as large as saucers.

1921 S. F. Gowing Man with Brooding Eyes iv. 42 He dropped her hands as if they burned him, and moved back a step, staring at her with awe and incredulity. Ted Hartopp's eyes were like saucers.

2007 R. Bowen Dublin's Fair City (2015) xxxiii. 271 The frightened groom nodded, his eyes as wide as saucers.

单词	eyes like saucers
释义	> as lemmas eyes like saucers In similative phrases, comparing the eyes to saucers, esp. in being large and round, and in later use typically indicating awe, surprise, alarm, or other strong emotion, as in eyes like saucers, eyes as wide (also big, large, etc.) as saucers, etc. [The phrase originally showed sense A. 1a. Compare similarly Anglo-Norman les oyls granz com deus saucers (13th cent.).] ΚΠ a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) l. 3110 (MED) With eghen þat war ful bright and clere And brade ilkone als a sawsere. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 95 Her eyes like siluer saucers fayre beset, With shining Amber and with shady-Iet. 1659 T. St. Serfe tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Σεληναρχια sig. G^v In Water there is Fire, and in Fire there is Water; in Air, Earth; and in Earth, Air; and though this opinion make your Scholars open their eyes as big as sawcers, yet it is easier to prove, then to perswade them to it. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant v. i. 74 We met three or four hugeous ugly Devils, with eyes like Sawcers. 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 3 The eyes of these Dogs as Jetzer thought,..were bigger than Saucers. 1789 ‘P. Pindar’ Subj. for Painters 40 I thought That thou a pair of horns hadst got, With eyes like saucers staring! 1818 Morning Post 6 Feb. He spoke, and like saucers expanded all eyes In wonderment, scanning the orator's size. 1844 A. Marsh-Caldwell Triumphs of Time I. iii. 94 To my surprise, he answered with a sort of smile, ‘that perhaps it might’. I stared with eyes as large as saucers. 1921 S. F. Gowing Man with Brooding Eyes iv. 42 He dropped her hands as if they burned him, and moved back a step, staring at her with awe and incredulity. Ted Hartopp's eyes were like saucers. 2007 R. Bowen Dublin's Fair City (2015) xxxiii. 271 The frightened groom nodded, his eyes as wide as saucers. extracted from saucern.adj. < as lemmas
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