| 单词 | sea dingle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea dingle 1. A deep place; an abyss. Apparently only in sea dingle. rare (archaic or literary in later use).In quot. c1225 translating use of post-classical Latin abyssus (abyss n.) in Psalm 36:6 (35:7 in the Vulgate) in reference to the depths of the sea, perhaps choosing dingle for alliteration. Quots. c1931 and 1967 represent isolated later uses by authors familiar with quot. c1225, with Auden consciously echoing the whole line and Tolkien using sea dingle in the same sense but without direct allusion. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > region of sea or ocean > [noun] > deep place weelc897 sea dinglec1225 regort1477 ocean-deep1590 ocean depth1825 abyssal zone1852 abyssal1896 c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Bodl.) (1938) 34 His runes & his domes þe derne beoð & deopre þen eni sea dingle. c1931 W. H. Auden in M. Roberts New Signatures (1932) 30 Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle. 1967 J. R. R. Tolkien Smith of Wootton Major 29 He beheld strange shapes of flame bending and branching and wavering like great weeds in a sea-dingle. < as lemmas |
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