英语词汇“asses' bridge”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. bridge of asses (also ass's bridge, asses' bridge) = pons asinorum n. (in various contexts); spec. the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid's Elements; hence also in similar expressions.In early use, the sense varies between describing (i) something which helps or enables the stupid or ignorant to proceed (as in quot. 1648) and (ii) a difficulty past which the stupid or ignorant cannot proceed (as in quot. 1653). [After post-classical Latin pons asinorum pons asinorum n.]

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1607 J. Cleland Hρω-παιδεια ii. x. 89 Logick..should be taught plainlie and breiflie to be imploied in other Sciences..not in consuming the time idlelie in a curious search of Notion, of Notions, of the diuers subtilities of vniuersale: and in staying vpon the Asses bridge.

1648 J. d'Espagne Pop. Errors iv. x. 216 To make a treatise, of controversie, or commentary (which is at this day as a bridge for asses) he had upon the table five or sixe divers authors, tooke one line from one, and another from an other.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxviii. 184 For this is the Logical bridge of asses: here is the pitfall, here is the difficultie.

1718 S. Keimer Brand Pluck'd from Burning 64 He squar'd the Circle before 'em, Thro' Pons Asinorum made way. [Note] i.e. Asses bridge; a Proposition in Euclid.

c1780 Epigram in H. S. Kaltenborn Meaningful Math. (1951) 160 If this be rightly called the bridge of asses, He's not the fool that fails, but he that passes.

1860 All Year Round 22 Sept. 560 He never crossed the ass's bridge.

1998 J. L. Heilbron Geom. Civilized iii. 84 We come to the Bridge of Asses. That is the nickname—the pons asinorum—that medieval students of geometry..gave the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid's Elements.

单词	asses' bridge
释义	> as lemmas asses' bridge c. bridge of asses (also ass's bridge, asses' bridge) = pons asinorum n. (in various contexts); spec. the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid's Elements; hence also in similar expressions.In early use, the sense varies between describing (i) something which helps or enables the stupid or ignorant to proceed (as in quot. 1648) and (ii) a difficulty past which the stupid or ignorant cannot proceed (as in quot. 1653). [After post-classical Latin pons asinorum pons asinorum n.] ΚΠ 1607 J. Cleland Hρω-παιδεια ii. x. 89 Logick..should be taught plainlie and breiflie to be imploied in other Sciences..not in consuming the time idlelie in a curious search of Notion, of Notions, of the diuers subtilities of vniuersale: and in staying vpon the Asses bridge. 1648 J. d'Espagne Pop. Errors iv. x. 216 To make a treatise, of controversie, or commentary (which is at this day as a bridge for asses) he had upon the table five or sixe divers authors, tooke one line from one, and another from an other. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xxviii. 184 For this is the Logical bridge of asses: here is the pitfall, here is the difficultie. 1718 S. Keimer Brand Pluck'd from Burning 64 He squar'd the Circle before 'em, Thro' Pons Asinorum made way. [Note] i.e. Asses bridge; a Proposition in Euclid. c1780 Epigram in H. S. Kaltenborn Meaningful Math. (1951) 160 If this be rightly called the bridge of asses, He's not the fool that fails, but he that passes. 1860 All Year Round 22 Sept. 560 He never crossed the ass's bridge. 1998 J. L. Heilbron Geom. Civilized iii. 84 We come to the Bridge of Asses. That is the nickname—the pons asinorum—that medieval students of geometry..gave the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid's Elements. extracted from assn.¹ < as lemmas
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