| 单词 | red sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRed Sea b. Hyperbolically, a great quantity of liquid, esp. (in figurative context) of blood. So, allusively, Red Sea (see 2), with reference to blood or wine. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of > large sea1598 junt1824 douse1835 1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) iii. sig. G3 And all this while the red sea of her blood Ebd with Leander. a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) vii. 83 Oyl-steep'd Anchovis, landed from his brine, Came freely swimming in red seas of wine. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 100 These Wars, which spilled such Seas of Blood. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 25 We will have one of Father Bacon's pupils..to conjure them [sc. such troublesome thoughts] away..—Or, what say you to laying them in a glorious red sea of claret, my noble guest? 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 239 The ghost of a creed..may be laid, after all, only in a Red Sea of blood. < as lemmas |
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