| 单词 | life's rich pageant |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife's rich pageant c. figurative. An open or complete display of something; (an overview of) the gradual development or passage of historical events, imagined as a procession passing before one's eyes. life's rich pageant: all the variety of human experience. ΚΠ 1835 J. H. Newman in Lyra Apost. xxix, in Brit. Mag. Oct. 414 The pageant of a kingdom vast, And things unutterable, past Before the Prophet's eye. 1895 I. Zangwill Master ii. i. 126 To translate into colour and line all this huge pageant of life. 1937 Life 16 Aug. 51 (advt.) Time is a front row seat to the tremendous, marching pageant of the news. 1975 K. Williams Diary 26 Feb. (1993) 489 It's all part of life's rich pageant. 1992 Matrix Fall 50/1 The same ‘value’ or validity as the subtle, wise and empathic recorder of the human pageant. < as lemmas |
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