| 单词 | seeing is believing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseeing is believing (also †leving) Proverb. seeing is believing (also †leving) and variants: visible evidence is convincing. ΚΠ ?1609 S. Harward Bipartite Alphabet. Harmony Prov. (MS Trin. Cambr. R.14.18) ii. f. 85 Seeing is leeving. 1627 J. Barlow Seasonable Disc. Spirituall Stedfastnesse 222 Hence growes our English proverb, that Seeing is beleeving. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 140 Seeing is believing. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. 21 There's nothing like Matter of Fact; Seeing is Believing. 1781 T. L. O'Beirne Generous Impostor iv. 60 Seeing's believing: it won't be long before she is put to the trial. 1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 497 Seeing is believing, says the proverb... Though, of all our senses, the eyes are the most easily deceived, we believe them in preference to any other evidence. 1975 A. Price Our Man in Camelot v. 84 ‘Show him the stuff.’.. ‘Okay. Maybe you're right... Seeing is believing, I guess.’ 2010 Metro (Nexis) 27 Oct. 18 (headline) If seeing is believing, why do so many of us think spirits actually exist? < as lemmas |
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