| 单词 | mortal coil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmortal coil b. mortal coil: the bustle or turmoil of this mortal life. A Shakespearean expression which has become a current phrase. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > active part of mortal coil1604 life1763 struggle for existence, for lifea1827 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 69 What dreames may come When we haue shuffled off this mortall coyle Must giue vs pause. View more context for this quotation a1764 C. Churchill Journey (1765) 8 When the Night Suspends this mortal coil. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. Introd. 5 Where rest from mortal coil the Mighty of the Isles. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm v. (1867) 108 The Christian..has waited in the coil of mortality only for the moment when he should inspire the ether of the upper world. < as lemmas |
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