| 单词 | far from the madding crowd |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfar from the madding crowd 1. Becoming mad; acting madly; frenzied. Now chiefly in far from the madding crowd [in allusion to Gray's and Hardy's uses (see quots. 1751, 1874)] : (of a place) secluded, removed from public notice; also in other phrases modelled on this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > becoming or acting madding1579 maddeninga1743 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] secrec1374 blindc1386 privatea1513 secret?a1513 shadowy1555 close1571 retired1593 retrait1603 sequestrate1632 recessful1646 recluse1650 reserved1653 secessive1653 coy1670 sequestrated1726 slya1764 secluded1798 shy1841 retiracied1856 undisprivacied1870 madding1874 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 26 But now from me hys madding mynd is starte, And woes the Widdowes daughter of the glenne. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue lxxvi. sig. k2v (heading) The Author being, as it were, in halfe a madding moode. ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: Deare Wood in Poems Farre from the madding Worldlings hoarse discords. 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 171 Observe the madding motion of his eyes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 210 The madding Wheeles Of brazen Chariots rag'd. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 416 She..mixing with the throng Of madding Matrons, bears the Bride along. 1716 J. Addison To Princess of Wales 3 Bid impious discord cease, And sooth the madding factions into peace. 1751 T. Gray Elegy xix. 9 Far from the madding Crowd's ignoble Strife. [Cf. quot. ?1614.] 1802 Eng. Encycl. VIII. 308/1 These [words] are poetical, but were never in common use..shook (shaken), madding [etc.]. 1822 W. Wordsworth Eccl. Sketches ii. xiii. 55 Through the wide world to madding Fancy dear. 1874 T. Hardy (title) Far from the madding crowd. 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 9 I..suggested that we should seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 14 People..far from the madding crowds, west of the Darling River. 1992 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. a13/2 Lots of laughs from a mixed crowd that stepped in from the madding world of a surrounding shopping mall. < as lemmas |
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