英语词汇“rope of sand”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. rope of sand: something having no binding or holding power. [Compare classical Latin arēnae fūnis rope of sand (Columella) and also Hellenistic Greek ἐκ ψάμμου σχοινίον πλέκειν to weave a rope from sand (also later in the passage translated in quot. 1560).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > incohesion > something lacking cohesion

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1560 T. Gressop tr. N. Cabasilas Briefe Treat. Popes Vsurped Primacye sig. D Neither he in vsyng these argumentes, doth any more preuayl, then if he shuld attempt to wrethe a rope of sande.

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 152 Like ropes of sand (as wee are wont to say) doe these things hang together.

1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 583 Which destroys all possible security and confidence in this rope of sand, which Tradition is.

1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. Introd. p. xxviii It is no Wonder, therefore, that such Kind of Confederacies have always proved a Rope of Sand.

1780 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 222 Our union will become a mere rope of sand.

1800 J. Adams Let. 3 Oct. in Wks. (1854) IX. 87 Sweden and Denmark, Russia and Prussia, might form a rope of sand, but no dependence can be placed on such a maritime coalition.

1894 F. M. Elliot Rom. Gossip iv. 124 The alliance fell through of itself like a rope of sand.

1913 Times 11 Dec. 15/3 Such a register of members is, in general, a very rope of sand.

1985 T. Waits Singapore (song) in Rain Dogs (CD lyrics booklet) I danced along a coloured wind. Dangled from a rope of sand.

单词	rope of sand
释义	> as lemmas rope of sand P2. rope of sand: something having no binding or holding power. [Compare classical Latin arēnae fūnis rope of sand (Columella) and also Hellenistic Greek ἐκ ψάμμου σχοινίον πλέκειν to weave a rope from sand (also later in the passage translated in quot. 1560).] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > incohesion > something lacking cohesion rope of sand1560 1560 T. Gressop tr. N. Cabasilas Briefe Treat. Popes Vsurped Primacye sig. D Neither he in vsyng these argumentes, doth any more preuayl, then if he shuld attempt to wrethe a rope of sande. 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 152 Like ropes of sand (as wee are wont to say) doe these things hang together. 1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 583 Which destroys all possible security and confidence in this rope of sand, which Tradition is. 1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. Introd. p. xxviii It is no Wonder, therefore, that such Kind of Confederacies have always proved a Rope of Sand. 1780 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 222 Our union will become a mere rope of sand. 1800 J. Adams Let. 3 Oct. in Wks. (1854) IX. 87 Sweden and Denmark, Russia and Prussia, might form a rope of sand, but no dependence can be placed on such a maritime coalition. 1894 F. M. Elliot Rom. Gossip iv. 124 The alliance fell through of itself like a rope of sand. 1913 Times 11 Dec. 15/3 Such a register of members is, in general, a very rope of sand. 1985 T. Waits Singapore (song) in Rain Dogs (CD lyrics booklet) I danced along a coloured wind. Dangled from a rope of sand. extracted from ropen.¹ < as lemmas
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