单词 | before eyes |
释义 | > as lemmasbefore (a person's) (very) eyes a. before (a person's) (very) eyes: in or into full view of, openly in front of; in or into the presence of. Also before the (very) eyes of. Also figurative.See also to cast (also throw) a mist before a person's eyes at mist n.1 4b. ΚΠ eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) c. 3 Non proponebam ante oculos meos rem malam facientes : ic no foresette biforan egum minum wisan yfle donde. OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) xvii. 155 Hi manigum wundrum and tacnum þurh godes mihte beforan manna eagum scinon. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Duodecim Abusivis (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 111 Þine welan forrotiað biforan [OE Corpus Cambr. 178 ætforan] þine ehȝan. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 1048 Brent in a fyr before here yhen. 1440 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 76 Yai, havand Gode before yer eghen, do trewe execution of yis my presentt testament. 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Hii Let us not grossely beholde the breade and cuppe proposed and set before our eyes, but in faythe, consydere the lambe of God. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. M.iv In the presence and..beefore the very eyes of his king. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxi. 22 I am cut off from before thine eies. View more context for this quotation 1704 W. Baxter tr. Plutarch Of Isis & Osiris in tr. Plutarch Morals (ed. 4) IV. 128 And this, although they had the Absurdity of such a monstrous Opinion before their Very Eyes. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 228 Beaten to death with sticks, before the eyes of the astonished emperor. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea ii. 20 A thousand other images, came in turbulent succession, almost as rapidly as the pictures of a whole life flit before the very eyes of a drowning man. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano ii. v. 82 For nought beside vain dalliance cared they, And their light folly was before our eyes. 1910 A. W. Ward in A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. (1927) VI. vii. 205 This section was written with the conception of a more perfect history before the eyes of the author. 2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 199 It was really happening! Before my very eyes, Bradford was bouncing back! < as lemmas |
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