英语词汇“like a fly in amber”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. like a fly (also insect) in amber and variants: used of something permanently preserved, immobilized, or unchanging, or which is regarded as a curious relic of the past. [With reference to the fact that insects are often found preserved in amber (sense A. 1a) as fossils.]

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1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) i. vii. 64/2 Oftentimes a red speck is conspicuous a long while, the blood persisting in the substance of the horny coat without corrupting, as it were an insect in Amber.

1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. Pref. sig. D* The many pitiful Shamms..are not to expect to live in Story, or to be there Entombed like the Fly in Amber.

1847 I. A. Blackwell in T. Percy et al. tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. (rev. ed.) 374 (note) Byron caught him up, and..preserved him, like a fly in amber, for future generations to wonder at.

1911 Bull. Crozer Theol. Seminary Oct. 151 Whatever scientific knowledge of their day has reached us has been preserved like an insect in amber, having no organic or vital relation with the preserving material.

2002 Express (Nexis) 6 Nov. 29 Secreted in the hills of the Carmel Valley in a small town stuck in the Fifties like a fly in amber.

单词	like a fly in amber
释义	> as lemmas like a fly (also insect) in amber P1. like a fly (also insect) in amber and variants: used of something permanently preserved, immobilized, or unchanging, or which is regarded as a curious relic of the past. [With reference to the fact that insects are often found preserved in amber (sense A. 1a) as fossils.] ΚΠ 1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) i. vii. 64/2 Oftentimes a red speck is conspicuous a long while, the blood persisting in the substance of the horny coat without corrupting, as it were an insect in Amber. 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. Pref. sig. D* The many pitiful Shamms..are not to expect to live in Story, or to be there Entombed like the Fly in Amber. 1847 I. A. Blackwell in T. Percy et al. tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. (rev. ed.) 374 (note) Byron caught him up, and..preserved him, like a fly in amber, for future generations to wonder at. 1911 Bull. Crozer Theol. Seminary Oct. 151 Whatever scientific knowledge of their day has reached us has been preserved like an insect in amber, having no organic or vital relation with the preserving material. 2002 Express (Nexis) 6 Nov. 29 Secreted in the hills of the Carmel Valley in a small town stuck in the Fifties like a fly in amber. extracted from ambern.²adj. < as lemmas
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