| 单词 | roving eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroving eye a. Of a person's eyes, gaze, etc.: moving in changing directions, esp. in appraising or searching for something, spec. with allusion to a tendency to flirt or be constantly looking for new potential sexual or romantic partners, esp. when one is already in a relationship (chiefly in roving eye). Cf. rover n.2 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > movements of eye walling1513 rolling1532 roving1567 wandering1578 inconstant1598 loose1603 unrolling1647 voluble1661 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 210 His faire Ianiquette, whom if by any aduenture his roauing eyes did spie at ye doare, he forgatt not to salute. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. sig. D3v His rouing eie did on the Lady glaunce. View more context for this quotation 1651 J. Reading Guide to Holy City 379 It restraineth the roving eies from seeing that vanity of the world. 1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 23 Nature,..undisguis'd by mimic Art,..spreads Unbounded Beauty to the roving Eye. 1772 W. Jones Poems 29 Maia..Cast on an em'rald ring her roving sight. 1842 R. H. Barham Smuggler's Leap in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 161 He has curling locks, and a roving eye. 1869 P. Fitzgerald Fatal Zero II. iv. 35 That..questing, roving eye..that looks out of the corners sharply. 1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. iii. 380 At last his swiftly roving eyes lighted upon an object, just darker than the grey-brown of the night-ridden land. 1955 ‘P. Dennis’ Auntie Mame v. 118 Some he-whore with the roving eye..who's interested in you for just two things—one of which is money. 1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars (1993) 332 Once or twice he saw someone flinch from his roving gaze. 2002 Independent on Sunday 29 Sept. (Life Etc. section) 15/1 Despite his roving eye they remained together, and had three daughters and a son. < as lemmas |
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