| 单词 | from life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom life 7. The living world or human experience regarded as the subject for artistic representation; spec. the living form or model, esp. as represented in art (in modern use often connoting the nude form); life-size presentation; (also) the living representation or semblance of some quality, emotion, etc. Also with the. Now chiefly in fixed phrases, esp. in from life; see also after (also from, †by) the life at Phrases 5b, to the life at Phrases 5a. Cf. also life drawing n. at Compounds 2a, still life n. a, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [noun] > the real thing the natural1589 life1600 original1624 (the) genuine article1794 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 105 There was neuer counterfeit of passion, came so neare the life of passion as she discouers it. View more context for this quotation 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i. sig. D3 It doth shew So neere the life, as it were naturall. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) xxvii. 162 The best Way, to represent to life the manifold vse of Frendship. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 554 Sueton. hath drawn to life both the Portraictures and Insides of the xii Cæsars. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub v. 120 I have always lookt upon it as a high Point of Indiscretion..to hang out a fair large Picture over the Door, drawn after the Life. 1816 Dance of Death 7 He was drawing a figure after the life. 1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. viii. 24 Boccaccio's clear-cut intaglios from life and nature. 1998 L. Forbes Bombay Ice (1999) 90 I believe this one was modelled from life, although the artist has had the bad taste to dress him in a maharaja's jacket. < as lemmas |
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