英语词汇“beauty draws more than oxen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. beauty draws more than oxen, beauty draws us with a single hair, and variants. Cf. one hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen at hair n. Additions. Now somewhat rare.

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a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. C8^v Beauty drawes more then oxen.

1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 357 Fair Tresses Man's Imperial Race insnare, And Beauty draws us with a single Hair.

1837 New Monthly Mag. Aug. 528 If it be true that ‘Beauty draws us by a single hair,’ what must be the attraction, I thought, of a myriad mustered on my upper lip!

1884 J. A. Henshall Camping in Florida xiv. 180 Poor Jack! ‘Beauty draws us with a single hair,’ and here he was harnessed to each particular hair of the beauty's head, frizzes and all.

1898 Monist 8 269 As beauty draws more than oxen, so wit is a more effective weapon than the sword.

1941 ‘M. Coles’ They Tell no Tales xxii. 272 Beauty draws me with a single hair if it's blonde enough.

1945 R. L. Hine Confessions (ed. 2) 91 The old adage..that ‘beauty draws more than oxen.’

1988 Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. [In the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata] heroes abound, their heroisms subtly differentiated; beauty draws men with a single hair; miraculous births and magic powers abound.

单词	beauty draws more than oxen
释义	> as lemmas beauty draws more than oxen d. beauty draws more than oxen, beauty draws us with a single hair, and variants. Cf. one hair of a woman draws more than a team of oxen at hair n. Additions. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ a1633 G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) sig. C8^v Beauty drawes more then oxen. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 357 Fair Tresses Man's Imperial Race insnare, And Beauty draws us with a single Hair. 1837 New Monthly Mag. Aug. 528 If it be true that ‘Beauty draws us by a single hair,’ what must be the attraction, I thought, of a myriad mustered on my upper lip! 1884 J. A. Henshall Camping in Florida xiv. 180 Poor Jack! ‘Beauty draws us with a single hair,’ and here he was harnessed to each particular hair of the beauty's head, frizzes and all. 1898 Monist 8 269 As beauty draws more than oxen, so wit is a more effective weapon than the sword. 1941 ‘M. Coles’ They Tell no Tales xxii. 272 Beauty draws me with a single hair if it's blonde enough. 1945 R. L. Hine Confessions (ed. 2) 91 The old adage..that ‘beauty draws more than oxen.’ 1988 Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. [In the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata] heroes abound, their heroisms subtly differentiated; beauty draws men with a single hair; miraculous births and magic powers abound. extracted from beautyn. < as lemmas
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