| 单词 | blind spot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblind spot blind spot n. (a) the spot on the retina which is insensible to light; (b) Cricket that spot of ground in front of a batter where a ball pitched by the bowler leaves the batter in doubt whether to play forward or back; (c) Radio (see quot. 1923); (d) transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > a perverse inclination or act wrong-headedness1748 warp1764 squint1774 blind spot1864 society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > obstruction or poor reception blind spot1864 screening1902 fading1912 night effect1914 night error1921 wipeout1921 skip1925 radio fade-out1927 fade-out1937 the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > retina > other parts of retina macula1670 fundus1682 yellow spot1798 macula lutea1818 ora serrata1833 corresponding points1841 identical points1841 blind spot1864 fixation-point1890 cyanolabe1958 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > of specific difficulty to batsman blind spot1864 1864 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 301 Now the great difficulty of slows, besides being (as they ought all to be) ‘in the blind spot’, consists in the elevation..of a dropping ball. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) ix. 219 So long as the image..rests upon the entrance of the optic nerve, it is not perceived, and hence this region of the retina is called the blind spot. 1891 W. G. Grace Cricket iii. 73 Too soon would come a ball on the blind spot. 1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island Pref. p. xli You find that there is a blind spot on their moral retina, and that this blind spot is the military spot. 1910 J. Galsworthy Justice i. 19 No doing anything with them... They've got a blind spot. 1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 7 Wireless blind spots, where distant broadcasting is heard more clearly than that nearer at hand. 1932 E. V. Lucas Reading, Writing & Remembering viii. 150 He was too full of prejudices and had too many blind spots, to be the perfect critic. < as lemmas |
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