| 单词 | sadder and wiser |
| 释义 | > as lemmassadder and wiser P2. sadder and wiser: (of a person) having gained wisdom from sad or bitter experience.Possibly influenced by the older association of sad (in sense ‘grave, dignified, serious’) with wise: see sense A. 3. ΚΠ 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 51 A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv*. 222 ‘A sadder and a wiser man,’ he felt [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 175 When he takes his way homewards, he is a sadder and a wiser man. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer ii. ii. 146 Well I suppose there's not one of you gentlemen here who hasnt at some time or other taken a plunger, and how many of you hasnt come back sadder and wiser. 2001 R. Cellan-Jones Dot.bomb xiv. 223 Colleagues who had departed to become millionaires on the dot.com scene began returning to the grubby world of newsprint, sadder and wiser. < as lemmas |
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