请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 before sight
释义

> as lemmas

before (a person's) sight
b. before (a person's) sight, before the (very) sight of: = before (a person's) (very) eyes, before the (very) eyes of at Phrases 4a.
ΚΠ
OE Blickling Homilies 157 He hie þa ahof up on wolcnum beforan Drihtnes gesihþe.]
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5495 Wiþþ þatt itt iss inn heoffness ærd Biforenn godess sihhþe.
c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 143 (MED) Heo preyeþ to don hire lawe and riht, Hire sone don come bi-fore heore siht.
c1572 W. Forrest Theophilus 1057 in Anglia (1884) 7 108 Although to his shame yt make an uprore Of admyration before the worldes sight.
1744 M. Byles Poems Several Occasions 26 Now clanking Chains amaze my list'ning Ears, And hideous Spectres skim before my Sight.
1815 Analectic Mag. Dec. 487 Their belief that the raw militia of Kentucky and Tennessee..could not stand before the very sight of so numerous a body of regular troops advancing to attack them, made them disregard the admonition of sober reason.
1951 S. H. Bell December Bride ii. xx. 219 Fear of her neighbours partly, but also, let it be said, shame and remorse when she thought of the life that she was unrolling, day by day, before the sight of God and her mother in Heaven.
2004 R. W. Barber Holy Grail xvi. 218 He will see no more of the Grail than what has already passed before his sight.
extracted from beforeadv.prep.conj.n.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 10:08:47