| 单词 | prometheus-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasProˈmetheus-like Proˈmetheus-like adv. ΚΠ 1656 T. Fuller Strange Justice 44 in Best Name on Earth & Other Serm. (1659) sig. M3 Look upon high Germany which ever Prometheus like hath a cruell eagle feeding upon her entrailes. 1716 Mil. & Other Poems 200 But when, Prometheus like, he soar'd on high, And taught the Rich, as well as Poor, would lye. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 198 Prometheus like, to snatch a beam of day, And homeward bear the unscintillating ray. 1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) ii. x. 169 Training her binoculars on a plateau, she saw over a dozen naked men chained Prometheuslike to huge rocks. < as lemmas |
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