英语词汇“procrustes bed”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

General attributive and in the genitive, chiefly in Procrustes bed (cf. Procrustean bed n. at Procrustean adj. Compounds).

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1651 J. Owen Advantage Kingdome of Christ 13 They also had prepared a Procrustes bed, a heavy yoke, a beast that had it grown to perfection.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 235 To really cut down or stretch out every subject to the Procrustes Bed of 16 pages is not possible without a sacrifice of my whole plan.

1837 S. Smith 1st Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 259/2 It is quite absurd to see how all the Cathedrals are to be trimmed to an exact Procrustes pattern.

1870 W. Graham Lect. Ephes. v. 129 It became the procrustes bed on which the faith and hope of the nation were offered up.

1927 H. J. Laski Communism iv. 176 All attempts to force a people into a Procrustes' bed of preconceived ideas, however well-intentioned, is doomed to failure.

2000 Isis 91 163/2 As her prose is somewhat opaque, with frequent, long, and loosely integrated quotations, it is difficult to tell whether the evidence does fit the Procrustes bed of her interpretation.

单词	procrustes bed
释义	> as lemmas Procrustes bed General attributive and in the genitive, chiefly in Procrustes bed (cf. Procrustean bed n. at Procrustean adj. Compounds). ΚΠ 1651 J. Owen Advantage Kingdome of Christ 13 They also had prepared a Procrustes bed, a heavy yoke, a beast that had it grown to perfection. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) III. 235 To really cut down or stretch out every subject to the Procrustes Bed of 16 pages is not possible without a sacrifice of my whole plan. 1837 S. Smith 1st Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 259/2 It is quite absurd to see how all the Cathedrals are to be trimmed to an exact Procrustes pattern. 1870 W. Graham Lect. Ephes. v. 129 It became the procrustes bed on which the faith and hope of the nation were offered up. 1927 H. J. Laski Communism iv. 176 All attempts to force a people into a Procrustes' bed of preconceived ideas, however well-intentioned, is doomed to failure. 2000 Isis 91 163/2 As her prose is somewhat opaque, with frequent, long, and loosely integrated quotations, it is difficult to tell whether the evidence does fit the Procrustes bed of her interpretation. extracted from Procrustesn. < as lemmas
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