| 单词 | one's sun is set |
| 释义 | > as lemmasone's sun is (also has) set (c) literary and poetic. one's sun is (also has) set and variants: one's life, youth, period of prosperity, etc., has come to an end; also in extended use. Now rare.In quot. a1616 perhaps with punning allusion to son n.1 ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) v. iii. 62 The Sunne of Rome is set. View more context for this quotation 1630 N. Richards Celestiall Publican sig. K3 Gone is the subiect of my mournefull verse His sun is set. 1748 T. Gray Ode in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 267 On hasty wings thy youth is flown; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone. 1812 M. Edgeworth Vivian vii, in Tales Fashionable Life IV. 164 All the fair hopes and virtuous promises of my youth, I must give up. Early as it is in my day, my sun has set. 1860 Once a Week 8 Dec. 664/1 Alas, for Prague! its beaux jours are over. We fear its sun is set. a1972 C. Day Lewis Compl. Poems (1992) 626 I reach out through silence and through stone To her whose sun has set. < as lemmas |
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