| 单词 | a wheel within a wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa wheel within a wheel b. wheels within wheels, less usually a wheel within a wheel (after Ezekiel i. 16): a complexity of forces or influences; a complication of motives, designs, or plots; also gen. any complexity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > a complicated state of affairs labyrinthc1450 proplexity1487 maze1531 perplexity1563 intricacy1611 intrigo1648 intrigue1660 intricoa1670 wheels within wheels1679 imbroglio1818 involvement1821 scrimmage1852 situation1954 1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 32 Yet the Wheel within the wheel moved upon other grounds, God making use of his Soveraignty over his Creatures, in raising and stirring up One Nation or Person to punish the Evils of Another. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 74 Thus we have Wheels within Wheels. And in some National Constitutions..we have one Empire within another. a1754 E. Erskine Serm. Wrath of Man in Wks. (1791) 711/2 There is a wheel within a wheel, which will turn matters about so, as the wrath of man shall praise God, and advance his interest, instead of ruining it. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. App. 200 Being..wheels within wheels, sentences in the midst of sentences. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 391 There's a wheel within a wheel, or you wouldn't have got that. 1861 A. Gurowski Diary (1862) 75 McClellan ought to..have direct action; and not refer to Scott. What is this wheel within a wheel? 1900 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Isle of Unrest vi There are wheels within wheels..in the social world of Paris. < as lemmas |
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