| 单词 | lady with the lamp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLady with the Lamp Lady with the Lamp n. (also Lady of the Lamp; also with lower-case initials) (a name given to) Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the hospital reformer and founder of modern nursing; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > Florence Nightingale Lady with the Lamp1860 1857 H. W. Longfellow Santa Filomena in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 23 A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.] 1860 G. A. Sala Lady Chesterfield's Lett. viii. 133 If he recovered he would have been one of those who..would rise in his bed as the Lady with the Lamp glided from ward to ward, to kiss her shadow. 1898 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 721 (heading) The Lady with the Lamp. 1911 D. A. Reid Mem. Crimean War vi. 44 We now find that Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service is an integral part of the British Army... What better monument could be erected to the ‘Lady of the Lamp’. 1969 Listener 10 Apr. 482/3 Not for nothing has the indefatigable Miss Jennie Lee earned for herself a Lady-with-the-Lamp reputation as Minister for the Arts. 2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Dec. 16 The lady with the lamp has dominated the story, especially in the public mind. < as lemmas |
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