| 单词 | as pure as driven snow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas pure (also white) as (the) driven snow a. Of snow: piled into drifts or carried along by the wind. Chiefly in as pure (also white) as (the) driven snow and variants: (with reference to colour) of an unblemished or unmarked white; (in later use chiefly figurative) morally pure; having an untarnished reputation; cf. whiter than white at white adj. and n. Phrases 5, and expressions at white adj. and n. Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [adjective] > driving or driven drivingc1325 drivenc1330 driftya1732 stouring1891 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as snow snow-whitec1000 as pure (also white) as (the) driven snowc1330 snowishc1374 snowy1590 nixious1623 snow-like1663 snow1750 society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] > very pure as pure (also white) as (the) driven snow1763 pearly1770 c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 416 Wiþ..berd..As white as ani driuen snowe. c1425 Castle of Love (Egerton) (1967) l. 382 Als whit as any dryuen snawe. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 29 The fish Scolopidus..at the waxinge of the Moone is as white as the driuen snow. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xxviii. 251 Thin Paper..but as strong as any Vellum, and as white as driven Snow. 1763 D. Hume Let. 1 Sept. (1932) I. 393 I was now a Person clean & white as the driven Snow, and..were I to be proposd for the See of Lambeth, no Objections could henceforth be made to me. 1791 R. Townley Jrnl. kept Isle of Man II. 149 My windows were so thoroughly encrusted by the driven snow, that..it was with much difficulty I could see, either to write or read. 1894 Pick-me-up 15 Dec. 165/1 Her complexion will be as pure as the driven snow. 1980 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 19 Oct. Temperature -45 C (-49 F), wind speed 36 knots, driven snow and zero cloud cover. 2011 Private Eye 27 May 5/2 Secretive commodities company Glencore, which has just floated on the stock market with a value of £37bn, may not be as pure as the driven snow. < as lemmas |
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