英语词汇“poisoned chalice”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

poisoned chalice n. (a) a chalice containing wine, etc., laced with poison; (b) figurative an assignment or award which appears advantageous to the recipient but proves to be detrimental.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 11 This euen-handed Iustice Commends th' Ingredience of our poyson'd Challice To our owne lips.

1761 A. Bower Hist. Popes V. 207 As for the poisoned Chalice, and the consecrated Wine, he caused them to be shut up in an Altar.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in T. Chatterton Poems p. xxviii Ah! dash the poison'd Chalice from thy Hand!

1841 Ladies' Repository Aug. 243 In an evil hour he listened to the voice of the syren—he found her proffered cup of promised bliss a poisoned chalice.

1852 B. Disraeli Ld. G. Bentinck ii. 34 Availing himself with happy readiness of the distressing incident, he [sc. Lord John Russell] endured the mortification of confessing to his sovereign his inability to serve her, and handed back with courtesy the poisoned chalice to Sir Robert [Peel].

1943 J. C. Miller Origins of Amer. Revol. v. 117 Rockingham consented, but he soon discovered that he had accepted a poisoned chalice.

2000 Observer 18 June (Sport section) 12/5 The growing feeling [is] that pole position has become something of a poisoned chalice, the winner during the past 12 races having come from elsewhere on the starting grid.

单词	poisoned chalice
释义	> as lemmas poisoned chalice poisoned chalice n. (a) a chalice containing wine, etc., laced with poison; (b) figurative an assignment or award which appears advantageous to the recipient but proves to be detrimental. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 11 This euen-handed Iustice Commends th' Ingredience of our poyson'd Challice To our owne lips. View more context for this quotation 1761 A. Bower Hist. Popes V. 207 As for the poisoned Chalice, and the consecrated Wine, he caused them to be shut up in an Altar. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Monody Death Chatterton (rev. ed.) in T. Chatterton Poems p. xxviii Ah! dash the poison'd Chalice from thy Hand! 1841 Ladies' Repository Aug. 243 In an evil hour he listened to the voice of the syren—he found her proffered cup of promised bliss a poisoned chalice. 1852 B. Disraeli Ld. G. Bentinck ii. 34 Availing himself with happy readiness of the distressing incident, he [sc. Lord John Russell] endured the mortification of confessing to his sovereign his inability to serve her, and handed back with courtesy the poisoned chalice to Sir Robert [Peel]. 1943 J. C. Miller Origins of Amer. Revol. v. 117 Rockingham consented, but he soon discovered that he had accepted a poisoned chalice. 2000 Observer 18 June (Sport section) 12/5 The growing feeling [is] that pole position has become something of a poisoned chalice, the winner during the past 12 races having come from elsewhere on the starting grid. extracted from poisonedadj. < as lemmas
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