单词 | in my world |
释义 | > as lemmasin my (also your, etc.) world 10. A person's normal or habitual sphere of interest, action, or thought; figurative a characteristic atmosphere or environment. Frequently with possessive adjective (in modern use often in my (also your, etc.) world). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity fieldOE limitationc1405 hemisphere?1504 ambitudea1525 world1580 orb1598 spherea1616 ambit1649 scene1737 orblet1841 front1917 parish1940 ballpark1963 shtick1965 1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 116 My Sunne will shine in the worlde of my weale, and my cleare day of delight bee faire in my fancy. 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. G Thine eyes the motors to command my world. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. N7v She dwells in her own self, there doth reside, Is her own world, and more or lesse doth pen Her self. 1774 W. H. Roberts Poems 36 Huge Ocean trembles thro his world of waves. 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 120 Children are blest, and powerful; their world lies More justly balanced; partly at their feet, And part far from them. 1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 234 With no aspirations beyond the little world in which she moved. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 28 The atmosphere of insolence in which he dwells;..the taint of contempt which infects all the intercourses of his world. 1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. iii. 53 A man's world is not of the senses simply, but of the spirit too. 1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xvi. 168 [His] world was a narrow one, consisting as it did of himself and his bank-book. ?1902 W. B. Yeats Let. 8 Feb. (1994) III. 154 American publishers are to me at any rate most unintelligible and mysterious & copyright laws are not in my world. 1938 H. G. Wells Apropos of Dolores iii. 124 In Paris, in her world, there is no such thing as an innocent garconnière. 2006 Wired Oct. 36/2 Andrew Lipson is a very special kind of topologist: In his world, everything is made of little plastic bricks. < as lemmas |
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