| 单词 | life is short, craft is long |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife is short, craft is long P2. Proverb. life is short, craft is long and variants: expressing the difficulty of attaining full mastery of a skill or subject within a human lifetime.In later use, often with allusion to Chaucer's use of the phrase (see quot. c1430). [Frequently translating the post-classical Latin maxim vita brevis, ars longa (13th cent.) or its ancient Greek equivalent ό βίος βραχύς, ή δὲ τέχνη μακρή (Hippocrates).] ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 3 (MED) Life is short, crafte forsoþ is long. c1430 (c1380) G. Chaucer Parl. Fowls (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1871) l. 1 The lyf so short the craft so longe to lerne. 1965 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China IV. p. li If we had been able to visit the museum..we might have been more wary of accepting current statements about them, but—ό βίος βραχύς, ή δὲ τέχνη μακρή, the craft is long but life is short. 2003 19th-Cent. Lit. Crit. 123 107/1 The craft is long, life is short—and dozing off on horseback can be deadly. < as lemmas |
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