英语词汇“look nine ways”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) to look nine ways: to have a squint. Now rare.

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the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > oblique or askew

at travers?a1400

to look nine ways1542

nine ways (at once)1542

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > of vision: become disordered [verb (intransitive)] > squint

gleea1400

to look nine ways1542

squint1611

skelly1776

1542 N. Udall tr. Homer in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 180^v Squyntyied [Gk. ϕολκός] he was, and looked nyne wayes.

1602 R. Parsons Manifestation Great Folly vii. f. 82^v Himselfe being so wrong shapen, and of so bad & blinking aspect, as he looketh nyne wayes at once.

1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. iii. ii. 26 I'll make her look nine ways at once before I have done with her, by Conscience.

1762 Life, Trav., & Adventures Christopher Wagstaff I. xxviii. 140 A plague on her for a squinting toad, she looks nine ways at once.

1999 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 6 Sept. People who squint are said to look nine ways.

(b) to go (also look) nine ways (at once, at thrice) and other variants: expressing the indecision produced by terror, surprise, eagerness, etc.

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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > vacillation [phrase]

backward and forward1581

to go (also look) nine ways (at once, at thrice)a1617

a1617 P. Baynes Entire Comm. Epist. Paul to Ephesians (1643) 124 Some if a thing come into the head, turne them forthwith to it, as busily as if they would goe nine waies at once.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cccxxvi, in Poems (1878) III. 218 Passion flyes Squinting, and, as wee say, Nine wayes at Thrice.

1675 G. Thomson Ορθο-μέθοδος ἰατρο-χυμικὴ: Direct Method curing Chymically xiv. 119 Their Hodg podg, Bolmong Non-sensical jumbling together of multitude of Ingredients, looking Ninety nine ways at once, but in no wise at the right Mark.

1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. ii. x. 272 They..would have lost all their Amiableness, and have looked askew an hundred ways at once, to denote the many little Plots she was forming to do mischief.

1774 A. M. Toplady Hist. Proof Doctrinal Calvinism Church of Eng. I. vi. 115 As if the Church of England was the common Receptacle of Error, and looked ninety-nine Ways at once!

1834 C. Bruce Mirth & Morality 163 When the water first came down the streets, the folks stared like so many throttled cats; Parson Shipley looked half-a-dozen ways at once.

1901 N. Munro Shoes of Fortune xlii. 389 He threw up his hands and glowered at me with his gleed eye looking seven ways for sixpence as the saying goes.

单词	look nine ways
释义	> as lemmas to look nine ways (a) to look nine ways: to have a squint. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > oblique or askew at travers?a1400 to look nine ways1542 nine ways (at once)1542 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > of vision: become disordered [verb (intransitive)] > squint gleea1400 to look nine ways1542 squint1611 skelly1776 1542 N. Udall tr. Homer in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 180^v Squyntyied [Gk. ϕολκός] he was, and looked nyne wayes. 1602 R. Parsons Manifestation Great Folly vii. f. 82^v Himselfe being so wrong shapen, and of so bad & blinking aspect, as he looketh nyne wayes at once. 1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. iii. ii. 26 I'll make her look nine ways at once before I have done with her, by Conscience. 1762 Life, Trav., & Adventures Christopher Wagstaff I. xxviii. 140 A plague on her for a squinting toad, she looks nine ways at once. 1999 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 6 Sept. People who squint are said to look nine ways. extracted from wayn.¹int.¹ to go (also look) nine ways (at once, at thrice) (b) to go (also look) nine ways (at once, at thrice) and other variants: expressing the indecision produced by terror, surprise, eagerness, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > vacillation [phrase] backward and forward1581 to go (also look) nine ways (at once, at thrice)a1617 a1617 P. Baynes Entire Comm. Epist. Paul to Ephesians (1643) 124 Some if a thing come into the head, turne them forthwith to it, as busily as if they would goe nine waies at once. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cccxxvi, in Poems (1878) III. 218 Passion flyes Squinting, and, as wee say, Nine wayes at Thrice. 1675 G. Thomson Ορθο-μέθοδος ἰατρο-χυμικὴ: Direct Method curing Chymically xiv. 119 Their Hodg podg, Bolmong Non-sensical jumbling together of multitude of Ingredients, looking Ninety nine ways at once, but in no wise at the right Mark. 1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. ii. x. 272 They..would have lost all their Amiableness, and have looked askew an hundred ways at once, to denote the many little Plots she was forming to do mischief. 1774 A. M. Toplady Hist. Proof Doctrinal Calvinism Church of Eng. I. vi. 115 As if the Church of England was the common Receptacle of Error, and looked ninety-nine Ways at once! 1834 C. Bruce Mirth & Morality 163 When the water first came down the streets, the folks stared like so many throttled cats; Parson Shipley looked half-a-dozen ways at once. 1901 N. Munro Shoes of Fortune xlii. 389 He threw up his hands and glowered at me with his gleed eye looking seven ways for sixpence as the saying goes. extracted from wayn.¹int.¹ < as lemmas
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