英语词汇“one's reach exceeds one's grasp”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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one's reach exceeds one's grasp

c. one's reach exceeds one's grasp (and variants): one aspires to more than one can achieve (after quot. 1855).

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1855 R. Browning Andrea del Sarto in Men & Women II. 6 A man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a Heaven for?

1902 Philos. Rev. 11 172 The controlling conviction is that ‘a man's reach should exceed his grasp’.

1934 M. Sherwood Undercurrents of Influence in Eng. Romantic Poetry iii. 144 ‘Vast ideas’ stretched out before him, but his ‘reach’ too far exceeded his ‘grasp’.

1947 Harvard Law Rev. 60 731 His essay is more to be commended for its reach than for its grasp.

1990 People 19 Feb. 29/1 A singer whose vocal reach truly exceeds his octave grasp.

2005 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. iv. 13/3 And Mr. Spitzer must think big, because he wants to be governor. But now his reach has officially exceeded his grasp.

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单词	one's reach exceeds one's grasp
释义	> as lemmas one's reach exceeds one's grasp c. one's reach exceeds one's grasp (and variants): one aspires to more than one can achieve (after quot. 1855). ΚΠ 1855 R. Browning Andrea del Sarto in Men & Women II. 6 A man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a Heaven for? 1902 Philos. Rev. 11 172 The controlling conviction is that ‘a man's reach should exceed his grasp’. 1934 M. Sherwood Undercurrents of Influence in Eng. Romantic Poetry iii. 144 ‘Vast ideas’ stretched out before him, but his ‘reach’ too far exceeded his ‘grasp’. 1947 Harvard Law Rev. 60 731 His essay is more to be commended for its reach than for its grasp. 1990 People 19 Feb. 29/1 A singer whose vocal reach truly exceeds his octave grasp. 2005 N.Y. Times 3 Apr. iv. 13/3 And Mr. Spitzer must think big, because he wants to be governor. But now his reach has officially exceeded his grasp. extracted from reachn.¹ < as lemmas
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