| 单词 | natural as life |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) natural as life b. (as) natural as life: entirely natural, esp. in appearance or behaviour; appearing as if alive. ΚΠ 1703 S. F. Egerton Poems Several Occasions 85 But thus we fondly Rave to miss the Joy, Love natural as Life, does Life destroy. 1802 in New Eng. Mag. (1891) May 388/2 A large and valuable collection of curiosities—consisting of Birds, Beasts, and Insects, in the best preservation, (to appearance) natural as life. 1808 J. Austen Let. 15 June (1995) 125 Our two brothers were walking before the house as we approached, as natural as life. 1821 J. Galt Ayrshire Legatees (1895) xxv. 223 A steam-ingine that minches minch-collops as natural as life. 1887 Overland Monthly Dec. 729 ‘Wide Awake’ and ‘Fast Asleep’ are two lithoed water colors by Ida Waugh, the American artist, soft in tone and as natural as life in expression. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession iv. 62 The dome, which you must imagine like the magic covers you have seen in your drawing-room under which dwell all sorts of brilliant little birds, as natural as life on their branches. < as lemmas |
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