英语词汇“a living dog is better than a dead lion”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. a living (also live) dog is better than a dead lion and variants: ‘where there's life, there's hope’, often used to assert the virtue of thoughtfulness or pragmatism, especially over heedlessness or heroism.With allusion to Ecclesiastes 9:4 (see quots. a1382 and 1611).

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. ix. 4 Betere is a quyc dogge thanne a leoun dead[L. melior est canis vivus leone mortuo].

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. xxv. f. 264^v Salomon speaketh of the common and receiued opinion, when hee saithe that a liuing dogge is better then a deade Lion.

1611 Bible (King James) Eccles. ix. 4 For to him that is ioyned to all the liuing, there is hope: for a liuing dogge is better then a dead Lion .

1679 J. Humfrey Animadversions & Considerations 65 Those of this Errour do make the Souls of Men, before Christ's coming, mortal, and to dye with the Body; which is..worse than the Papists, their Purgatory, For a live Dog is better than a dead Lyon.

1752 L. Chappelow Comm. Bk. Job I. 295 A living dog is better than a dead lion: is the third among the Arabic Adagies.

1873 Illustrated Rev. 6 Dec. 455/1 On the principle that a live dog is better than a dead lion, a farce well played is preferable to an old-fashioned comedy mangled.

1910 N.Y. Times 24 Jan. 5/2 He declared that the sentiment, ‘Freedom I love thee, though thou slay me’, was foolish, and that one of the wisest statements ever made was this: ‘A live dog is better than a dead lion.’

1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 6 Great heroes like Achilles..knew that it is better to be here in this life than free among the dead, just as a living dog is better than a dead lion.

2014 L. Lalami Moor's Acct. i. 11 This made no sense to me, yet I remained silent... The elders teach us: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

单词	a living dog is better than a dead lion
释义	> as lemmas a living (also live) dog is better than a dead lion b. a living (also live) dog is better than a dead lion and variants: ‘where there's life, there's hope’, often used to assert the virtue of thoughtfulness or pragmatism, especially over heedlessness or heroism.With allusion to Ecclesiastes 9:4 (see quots. a1382 and 1611). ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Eccles. ix. 4 Betere is a quyc dogge thanne a leoun dead[L. melior est canis vivus leone mortuo]. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. xxv. f. 264^v Salomon speaketh of the common and receiued opinion, when hee saithe that a liuing dogge is better then a deade Lion. 1611 Bible (King James) Eccles. ix. 4 For to him that is ioyned to all the liuing, there is hope: for a liuing dogge is better then a dead Lion . View more context for this quotation 1679 J. Humfrey Animadversions & Considerations 65 Those of this Errour do make the Souls of Men, before Christ's coming, mortal, and to dye with the Body; which is..worse than the Papists, their Purgatory, For a live Dog is better than a dead Lyon. 1752 L. Chappelow Comm. Bk. Job I. 295 A living dog is better than a dead lion: is the third among the Arabic Adagies. 1873 Illustrated Rev. 6 Dec. 455/1 On the principle that a live dog is better than a dead lion, a farce well played is preferable to an old-fashioned comedy mangled. 1910 N.Y. Times 24 Jan. 5/2 He declared that the sentiment, ‘Freedom I love thee, though thou slay me’, was foolish, and that one of the wisest statements ever made was this: ‘A live dog is better than a dead lion.’ 1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 6 Great heroes like Achilles..knew that it is better to be here in this life than free among the dead, just as a living dog is better than a dead lion. 2014 L. Lalami Moor's Acct. i. 11 This made no sense to me, yet I remained silent... The elders teach us: a living dog is better than a dead lion. extracted from dogn.¹ < as lemmas
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