| 单词 | a blot on the landscape |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa blot (up)on the landscape c. transferred. Any black or dark patch, especially as contrasted with light surroundings; also, anything that sullies or mars a fair surface, a blemish or disfigurement. Esp. in a blot (up)on the landscape; also figurative. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish tachec1330 vicec1386 flakec1400 plotc1400 offencec1425 defectc1450 disconformity1505 defection1526 blemish1535 fitch1550 blot1578 flaw1604 tainta1616 mulct1632 smitch1638 scarring1816 out1886 the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > black thing or matter > [noun] > black mark black coal1525 blot1578 the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing eyesore1530 blind side1606 dissightc1710 ugly1755 desight1828 eye-sorrow1828 sight1862 a blot (up)on the landscape1912 to be no oil painting1919 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. cxiii. 306 It taketh away the hawe or webbe in the eye & al spottes or blottes in the same. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. ii. 45 If thou..wert grim..Full of vnpleasing blots, and sightlesse staines. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 6 When the Dragon woome Of Stygian darknesse..Makes one blot of all the aire. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 177 Distinction lost; and gay variety One universal blot. 1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in Elia 249 I have a kindly yearning towards these dim specks—poor blots [sc. little sweeps]. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xix. 148 There are the black hills, blots upon rolling snow. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix. 262 That plain gilt cross..is rather a blot, is it not? 1912 T. E. Lawrence Let. 20 Feb. (1938) 137 His two Kufti people..will be rather a blot on the landscape. 1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing i. 8 ‘And a rousing toodle-oo to you, you young blot on the landscape,’ she replied cordially. 1962 Listener 11 Jan. 90/2 Charabancs and monstrous hordes of hikers are blots upon the landscape. < as lemmas |
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