| 单词 | lost sheep |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslost sheep b. lost sheep: one who has strayed from the right way. (Cf. 2a (a) and see lost adj. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > going astray > one who goes astray strayer1519 by-walker1549 swerver1598 stray1605 lost sheep1611 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. l. 6 My people hath bene lost sheepe . View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. xviii. 106 These fiue (lost sheepe) the children of perdition,..who lay lurking in desart..places. 1645 T. Vane (title) A lost sheepe retvrned home: or, the motives of the conversion to the catholike faith, of Thomas Vane. 1851 J. Ruskin Sheepfolds 12 There are certain signs by which Christ's sheep may be guessed at. Not by their being in any definite Fold—for many are lost sheep at times: but by their sheep-like behaviour. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 13 Ye sexless eunuchs,..Lost sheep that err rebellious to the lady Dindymene. < as lemmas |
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