单词 | in one's mind's eye |
释义 | > as lemmasin one's mind's eye (a) one's mind's eye (in early use also the eye of the mind) [compare post-classical Latin oculus mentis (from 8th cent. in British sources)] : one's visual memory or imagination; recollection, contemplation. Frequently in one's mind's eye. Cf. also eye n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > mental view one's mind's eyec1390 prospect1528 vista1673 c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 552 It were with thilke eyen of his mynde, With whiche men seen, after that they been blynde. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 81 (MED) Entre is opynd in behaldynge of heuenly misterys to þe ee of his mynde. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 2895 (MED) Haue often [him] by-fore your myndes ye. 1577 H. Languet Let. in Corr. Sidney & Languet (1845) 126 What will not these golden mountains effect..which I dare say stand before your mind's eye day and night? 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 184 I see my father..in my mindes eye. 1749 D. Garrick Let. 3 Aug. (1963) I. 107 We were going the other Night in Imagination to Londesburgh, &..My Lady was very near Desiring to make it real, but..we were oblig'd to See It, only in the Mind's Eye. 1797 F. Burney Jrnl. 30 Oct. (1973) IV. 2 Not an Hour passes in which he is not present to my mind's Eye. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 414 I have..the little thatched cottages of Waltham Chase..in my mind's eye. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 320 One such scene is in my mind's eye at this moment. 1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 6 Seeing in his mind's eye the tired grey man. 1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxvi. 235 Their name did not evoke an image to him; neither to his mind's eye nor Isabel's did they appear. 2005 D. Cruickshank Around World in 80 Treasures 225 So, like much else in St Petersburg, the vision for the prospect is Peter's—he could see its noble vista in his mind's eye when all was still marsh. < as lemmas |
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