单词 | one's place in the sun |
释义 | > as lemmasone's place in the sun (c) one's place in the sun and variants: (originally) an individual share in those things to which all have a right; (subsequently) a favourable or advantageous situation or position, prominence. [Probably ultimately after French sa place au soleil one's place in the sun, one's spot in the sunlight (used symbolically for the concept of ownership) ( B. Pascal Pensées (a1662) §53); in early use in political contexts via German Platz an der Sonne (1897 in the passage translated in quot. 1897).] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > individual share in one's place in the sun1901 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > what is fitting > share in that to which all have right one's place in the sun1901 the mind > possession > sharing > [noun] > a share > one's due share > of those things to which all have a right one's place in the sun1901 1897 tr. B. von Bülow in Times 7 Dec. 5/5 We desire to throw no one into the shade, but we also demand our own place in the sunlight [Ger. unseren Platz an der Sonne].] 1901 tr. Kaiser Wilhelm II in Times 20 June 5/4 We have..fought for our place in the sun [Ger. den Platz an der Sonne] and have won it. It will be my business to see that we retain this place in the sun unchallenged, so that the rays of that sun may exert a fructifying influence upon our foreign trade and traffic. 1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. iii. 22 Five million pounds spent on the organised travel of a hundred thousand working men..would infect the working class with a feverish desire for a place in the sun. The world is their children's for the taking. 1928 C. R. Longwell in Theory Continental Drift (Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists) 145 Perhaps the very completeness of this iconoclasm, this rebellion against the established order, has served to gain for the new hypothesis a place in the sun. 1967 V. Lincoln Private Disgrace (1968) iii. 37 Lizzie longed for a place in the sun. But..her longing for popularity was self-defeating. 2016 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 19 July We should let them [sc. our young] find their place in the sun and at the pace they find comfortable. < as lemmas |
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