| 单词 | pride and joy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspride and joy 4. A person of whom, or thing of which, any person or group of people is proud; that which causes a feeling of pride in its possessor; (hence) the foremost, best, or most distinguished of a class, country, etc. In pride and joy: a cherished person or thing. See also Compounds 2.In quot. c1330 playing with the notion of Lucifer as the embodiment of pride. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] athelc885 highnesseOE brightnessOE thrumOE worshipOE highship?c1225 nobleyec1300 pridec1330 realtya1375 rialtya1375 greatnessc1384 nobletya1387 magnificencec1390 regalya1393 greatheada1400 hautesse1399 lordliness1440 celsitudec1450 excelsitudec1470 state1488 princeliness1545 kingliness1548 royalty1548 amplitudec1550 grandity1589 grandeur1600 glory1613 majesticalness1613 augusteity1615 grandezza1629 augustness1644 raisedness1645 celsity1656 splendidnessa1657 grandness1663 exaltedness1730 halo1813 queenliness1831 aureole1852 magnateship1916 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] > best thing or person highesteOE bestOE greatest?c1225 pridec1330 crestc1400 primrosea1450 outrepass1477 A per sea1500 primrose peerless1523 prisec1540 prime1579 surquidry1607 excellency1611 nonsuchc1613 crown jewel1646 top1665 patriarch1700 pièce de résistance1793 number one1825 business1868 resistance piece1870 star1882 mostest1889 koh-i-noor1892 best-ever1905 flagship1933 the end1950 endsville1957 Big Mac1969 mack daddy1993 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > state of pridec1330 primec1536 primrose1590 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 641 (MED) Þe deuels..fel out of heuen Wiþ her pride, Lucifer. a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxiv. 21 Y shal defoule my seyntuarie, the pryde of ȝour empyre, and desyrable thing of ȝour eyen. a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 32 Her þe pryd of waterford felle; her all hys myght went to noght. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xli. 15 His [leviathan's] scales are his pride . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 112 O Noble English, that could entertaine With halfe their Forces, the full pride of France. View more context for this quotation a1721 M. Prior Garland i The pride of every grove I chose,..To deck my charming Cloe's hair. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 55 A bold peasantry, their country's pride. a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1814) II. 89 Love and the fair were of his youth the Pride. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. 123 See yon pale stripling! when a boy, A mother's pride, a father's joy! 1897 A. C. Gunter Ballyho Bey xiii. 148 A pleasant rustle in the leaves of the great sieba tree, the pride of the Bishop's gardens. 1918 L. Brown & A. Harriman I Can't Stay Here While You're Over There (song) in F. G. Vogel World War I Songs (1995) iii. 326/1 Her heart was sad, He was all she had, He was her pride and joy. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. iv. 29 ‘Stride piano’, the particular pride and joy of Fats Waller and, before him, of innumerable ragtime pianists, comes from the blues. 1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 34/2 On 30th November 1941 it was officially announced by the Australian Prime Minister that the Sydney, pride of the Australian Navy, had been sunk. < as lemmas |
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