| 单词 | light of one's eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslight of one's eye(s) a. light of one's eye(s): (applied to) a person that someone loves above all others.In Old English with the complement of light in the genitive plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] darlingc888 the apple of a person's eyeeOE lief971 light of one's eye(s)OE lovedOE my lifelOE lovec1225 druta1240 chere1297 sweetc1330 popelotc1390 likinga1393 oninga1400 onlepya1400 belovedc1430 well-beloved1447 heart-rootc1460 deara1500 delicate1531 belove1534 leefkyn1540 one and only1551 fondling1580 dearing1601 precious1602 loveling1606 dotey1663 lovee1753 passion1783 mavourneen1800 dote1809 treasure1844 seraph1853 sloe1884 darlint1888 asthore1894 darl1930 OE Cynewulf Juliana 95 Ðu eart dohtor min seo dyreste ond seo sweteste in sefan minum, ange for eorþan, minra eagna leoht, Iuliana! OE St. Euphrosyne (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 346 Wa me, mine sweteste bearn, wa me, mira eagena leoht and mines lifes frofor. 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence iv. ii. sig. H2 She was the light of my eyes, and comfort of My feeble age. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 108 O my beloved! O light of mine eye. 2016 Express Tribune (Nexis) 8 May ‘She is the light of my eyes,’ the mother says. < as lemmas |
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