| 单词 | mists of time |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmists of time b. figurative. A dimness or haziness produced by time. Frequently in plural, esp. in mists of time.Cf. also sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > remote time or distance mist1701 deep time1832 azure1834 the world > time > relative time > the past > [noun] > mist or haze of distant time mist1701 1701 M. Chudleigh Ladies Defence 22 And who see clearly thro' the Mists of Time, Those puzling Glooms where busy Mortals stray. 1810 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne's Tower v. 4 Why may not human minds unveil The dim mists of futurity? 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. ii. 62 And o'er each mouldering tower, Dim with the mist of years, grey flits the shade of power. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xi. 5 Times..half shrouded in the mist of legend. 1912 S. C. Roy Mundas & their Country i. 16 The site of the original home of the Mundas will perhaps ever remain hidden from view in the mist of ages. 1996 Business Age June 95/1 Way back in the mists of time, when the Stock Exchange still had a trading floor. < as lemmas |
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