| 单词 | so near and yet so far |
| 释义 | > as lemmasso near and yet so far e. so near and yet so far: apparently close but actually out of reach. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [phrase] > that may be reached > only apparently within reach so near and yet so far1755 1755 W. Hay tr. Martial Select Epigrams i. 15 In the whole town no soul can be So near, and yet so far from me. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcv. 145 He seems so near and yet so far . View more context for this quotation 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. i. 25 The long sunny future that stretched before us in dim golden haze,—so near and yet so far from our young longing eyes. 1863 Harper's Mag. Dec. 93/2 Thou art so near, and yet so far! 1920 R. Macaulay Potterism i. i. 8 It was a curious age, so near and yet so far, when the ordered frame of things was still unbroken, and violence a child's dream. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 213 I've lost it!.. So near and yet so far! 1962 E. Cleaver in Negro Hist. Bull. 25 128/1 The actual conditions to which they aspired were..all around them, as it were ‘so near and yet so far’. 1993 M. Glasscoe Eng. Medieval Mystics (BNC) 139 But it is a question of ‘so near and yet so far’ as Hilton adds that man is not near Christ or in him until he has actually found him. < as lemmas |
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