单词 | falling in love |
释义 | > as lemmasfalling in love falling in love n. the action or fact of falling in love (see love n.1 Phrases 2a); the process or fact of becoming enamoured (with someone or something). ΚΠ 1588 M. Kyffin tr. Terence Andria i. i. B.iv Simo discourseth.., first of the honest life of his sonne: And afterward of his falling in loue. [No corresponding sentence in the Latin opriginal.] 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife ii. 17 Prithee let me tell you how I avoid falling in love; that which serves me for Prevention, may chance to serve you for a Cure. 1799 C. Ludger tr. A. von Kotzebue Peevish Man ii. viii. 48 Three hundred years ago there was no reading, and no falling in love neither. 1859 Nat. Rev. Oct. 375 In the first place, a fighting period; and in the next place, a falling-in-love period. 1897 M. H. Hervey David Dimsdale xvii. 249 Tell me, David, about this falling in love. Have you ever fallen in love? 1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist vii. 271 The commonest example is ‘falling in love’, where the simple sex-instinct becomes intertwined with other instincts. 1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice iii. 421 Her falling in love with him..was a proof of the abundant unpredictable richness of life. 2004 P. J. Conradi Going Buddhist 99 Devotion to the Guru means having a singular unmediated connexion with the Teacher which can resemble falling-in-love. 2015 J. H. Miller Communities in Fiction ii. 76 As is characteristic of Trollope's novels, the falling in love in Grace's case takes place against the opposition of family and friends. < as lemmas |
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